During the past year, we've usually had updates available on Fridays. Friday is a nice day, weekend coming &c, but it also meant that feedback on updates hit us during the two days of the week where we're slower to react if necessary. So we've decided that beginning this week, we'll publish updates on Wednesdays.

We are proud to announce new versions of miscellaneous tools are now available for beta testing!

Scanning engine

This update cannot be disabled in the download package; it is not only used if you install TeaTimer, but by the main Spybot-S&D scanner as well. The methods available to detect malware have been more than doubled, including new ways to generically detect malware mutations.

TeaTimer

Aside from the fix of the graphical glitch so many users have been waiting for, there have been some important changes under the hood, which will reduce the number of change dialogs where the user has to decide.
TeaTimer now automatically allows any changes during the installation of other security software which follow the ASCs guideline of code-signing all files, as well as a much improved scan of the files associated with registry changes.

Vista Security Center

The Windows Security Center included with Windows Vista has a dedicated entry for malware protection software. Microsoft ships Windows Defender with Vista, however, Spybot-S&D can now easily integrate into the Vista Security Center; which will then monitor if Spybot-S&D is up-to-date and whether the permanent protection (TeaTimer) is running or not.
This update will only show on Vista systems, since previous Windows versions do not offer anti malware integration into WSC.

You can find the download link, as well as a place for discussions of it, in this topic on our discussion forums.

很抱歉最近几天出现服务器无法访问的情况，那是因为用于本网站和提供主要更新信息的服务器正在升级；同时一些镜像更新服务器也将进行升级。

另外，我们也优化了更新下载——现在更新时只是下载更改的内容，因此从下周开始，每周更新文件的尺寸将会减小。同时使用了 Spybot-S&D 高级模式的用户会发现下载更新时出现了更多的文件，这些以字母 C 结尾的文件正是包括了最新的检测规则的升级文件。