{"id":3442,"date":"2022-05-30T14:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2022-05-30T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:56:47","slug":"how-to-set-up-spybot-search-and-destroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/30\/how-to-set-up-spybot-search-and-destroy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set Up Spybot Search and Destroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-attachment-id=\"3443\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/30\/how-to-set-up-spybot-search-and-destroy\/how-to-setup-spybot-search-and-destroy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/How-to-Setup-Spybot-Search-and-Destroy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Set Up and Trust Lists &amp;#8211; Spybot Search and Destroy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/How-to-Setup-Spybot-Search-and-Destroy-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/How-to-Setup-Spybot-Search-and-Destroy-1024x576.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/How-to-Setup-Spybot-Search-and-Destroy-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/How-to-Setup-Spybot-Search-and-Destroy-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/How-to-Setup-Spybot-Search-and-Destroy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/How-to-Setup-Spybot-Search-and-Destroy-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/How-to-Setup-Spybot-Search-and-Destroy-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/How-to-Setup-Spybot-Search-and-Destroy.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In our latest video guide, we show you how to set up Spybot Search and Destroy (version 2.9 on Windows 10) after you have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/29\/how-to-get-spybot-search-and-destroy-free\/\">downloaded and installed the Spybot Search and Destroy<\/a> free client.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We guide you through the initial configuration process including how to start Spybot Search and Destroy, how to display helpful hints for new users (or keep them hidden if you&#8217;ve used Spybot Search and Destroy 2.9 before) and also whether or not it is appropriate to set up trust lists to speed up your scanning with Spybot Search and Destroy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch until the end to make sure you don&#8217;t make the terrible mistake of creating trust list when you shouldn&#8217;t!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>REMEMBER! A bad trust list IS WORSE than no trust list at all.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ym5cPejRomU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy safe malware-free browsing and let us know what you think in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest video guide, we show you how to set up Spybot Search and Destroy (version 2.9 on Windows 10) after you have downloaded and installed the Spybot Search and Destroy free client.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Installed Spybot Search and Destroy with us yesterday?\n\nNow learn how to configure #Spybot to ensure that it works properly and you are aware of the #TrustList pitfall - make sure you watch to the end so you don't make the FATAL mistake!\n\n#AntiMalware","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[3118,1826,3098,3114,3115,3116,3119,3117],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-how-to-set-up-spybot-search-and-destroy","tag-spybot","tag-spybot-search-and-destroy","tag-spybot-search-and-destroy-2-9","tag-spybot-search-and-destroy-2022","tag-spybot-search-and-destroy-free","tag-spybot-search-and-destroy-trust-lists","tag-spybot-search-and-destroy-windows-10"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/How-to-Setup-Spybot-Search-and-Destroy.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3nsfA-Tw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}