日本語版の記事は準備中です。現在のところ原文を参照できます。

We're nearing the end of the year, Spybot-S&D 1.6 is out for about half a year now, and 2.0 is nearing beta. An important part of our 2.0 preparations of course evaluating where we could do better, we dug through a heap of statistics, and wanted so share a nice one with you:

Spybot-S&D 1.6 already improved the scan speed a lot, still, people complain about the time a full system scan takes again. This graph shows a "nice" explanation: the number of detection patterns used to detect malware has doubled since the release of 1.6 in July this year, to 343,003 detection patterns in this weeks update.

The graphs first steep increase can be explained with the addition of detections that needed the new capabilities of the 1.6 engine, and should you wonder about the following valley, that was a point where the new capabilities were used to reduce the amount of patterns needed, without actually reducing the detection range.

Conclusion? We have a massively improved detection range, and we're going to improve the scanning time this costs in 2.0 to counter the negative side (speed) of it.

私たちが今週、先日訪問した特別なイベントについて報告できることを誇りに思っています。 私たちは共に「バーチャル」の賞をいただき、それについて誇りに思っているのですが、残念ながら棚にずっと置けて励みになる物理的なトロフィーに勝ることができません。

先週、ドイツテレコム のダウンロード ポータルである softwareload.de で行われた、13カテゴリに分けられたソフトウェア ･ オブ ･ ザ ･ イヤー 2008 において Spybot - Search & Destroy が最も良いフリーウェアの Gold prize を受賞しました。 私たちは好意による投票をしてくださったすべてのユーザーに感謝しています。

私たちはこの受賞に浮かれずに、Spybot-S&D 2.0 に一生懸命作業しています。 マイルストーンのプロジェクトツールではスクリーンショット ギャラリーに追加し、ウィークリー ブログにも投稿しました。

日本語版の記事は準備中です。現在のところ原文を参照できます。

This weeks news start with our forums new Malware Removal Guides part. As you hopefully have noticed, we try to write down a few sentences about each threat Spybot-S&D detects. Thinking on how we could improve that service in preparation for Spybot-S&D 2.0, we decided to add more information. Removal guides are surely not a new idea, and not all can be really complete, since malware likes to use hiding methods that make them difficult to detect, and textual explanations already start to lack when it comes to randomized filenames. Still, some information is better than none, and we decided we'll just try and give our best in describing manual removal. Rolling out hundreds, if not thousands of guides will take a few days, maybe weeks, but you can already see the first ones here and comment here.

The Spybot 2.0 blog also has a new entry on usability for error handling concepts.