Spybot goes portable

Spybot search and destroy, that well known app that seems to have been around for ever, has gone portable.

http://portableapps.com/news/2011-01-03_-_spybot_portable_1.6.2

Worth reading some of the comments to help with info on this portable app.

Awesome I so added this to my portable suite.

Hurrah for John Haller :)

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Worth reading some of the comments to help with info on this portable app.

Thank you, Hazenut. Great news.

I've grabbed it too! Thanks for sharing the info about it Hazelnut!

Well it's both portable and not so portable. Some of the settings will still create desktop and start menu->programs shortcuts, which I think in my opinion should be disabled and untickable for a portable app.

Well it's both portable and not so portable. Some of the settings will still create desktop and start menu->programs shortcuts, which I think in my opinion should be disabled and untickable for a portable app.

Yeah I was going to mention that to John over at Portablefreeware.com

Anything else I should mention? remember most of their products will write to the drive and then remove the written stuff (that desktop icon is not one)

Also

Thanks for Spybot. However, for me settings are not remembered (language, default/advanced mode for example). Can someone confirm this?
I can confirm this. It appears it is due to the language switching component of the launcher. I'll take a look at it and hopefully have a fix posted within about a day.

Temporary Workaround: Open up the file SpybotPortable.ini within the SpybotPortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher directory. Remove the entire INI sections for [Language] [LanguageStrings] and [LanguageFile] and save it. That will disable language switching in relation to the PA.c platform and should keep your language selection between launches.

Well I didn't use the Immunize feature because I knew that too probably wouldn't be "portable," also some of that stuff I already knew would be done outside of the ability of the PortableApps.com Launcher to actually deal with. It's not bad, but like I stated before some of the stuff just needs disabled for it to be truly portable.

Well I didn't use the Immunize feature because I knew that too probably wouldn't be "portable," also some of that stuff I already knew would be done outside of the ability of the PortableApps.com Launcher to actually deal with. It's not bad, but like I stated before some of the stuff just needs disabled for it to be truly portable.

If there was a way to disable certain features, I would have done it. I was thinking of going through and just deleting things leftover for different things that we generally advise against (auto-start with windows, creating desktop icon, etc.).

Also, I asked Safer Networking if they'd be willing to work with the portable version so it would support Firefox Portable, etc. but they didn't seem interested. =\

(I'm the Spybot Portable dev, btw).

EDIT: For those of you running into portability issues, would you mind posting on the PA.c forum so I can keep track of any of its issues?

First Update

This update fixes an issue with language switching and setting Spybot to non-English languages.

http://portableapps.com/apps/security/spybot_portable