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The Spybot Search and Destroy Game

Scanning your PC for spyware can be a boring process.  Well there is a cool "Easter egg" in Spybot Search and Destroy which allows you to play a game of removing squares to reveal a painting by Leonardo da Vinci.  This works in Spybot Search & Destroy 1.4

Start up Spybot Search & Destroy and initiate a scan.  While the scan is running, click on the binoculars located under Help.

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You will hear a horse sound and the game will start up!

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Just something cool added in to our favorite anti-spyware application you may not have known about.

This article was written on 09/7/07 and tagged with: Security, XP, Games, Vista, Windows

Comments (6)

  1. Deezil

    Just to throw in a little culture on the readers of HTG ;-) The name of the game is Knight's Tour, and the picture is known by the name of The Vitruvian Man. Do Wikipedia searches for both.

  2. John Cradock

    Cool. Have they fixed that interface bug with the resident shield yet?

  3. chanio

    What is young Leonardo doing there all naked and with his legs wide open? :)

  4. martinsc

    nice, i have spent hours watching that screen bored waiting for the scan to complete….
    thanks

  5. pes

    Just keep in mind that the headers have to be displayed (in "Advanced Mode" choose "Settings", "Settings" and place a checkmark at "Display header." in section "Look & Feel").

    BTW: Works in version 1.5, too. ;-)

  6. Davin Peterson

    You do not have to intiate a scan. I opened up Spybot and I saw the binoculars on top and clicked it and the game opened.


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