All important settings are listed in a tree in this section. The description that follows is sorted by the trees main categories.

Installation

This section lets you add/remove the desktop icon and/or start menu item.

Spybot-S&D settings

This options should be self-explanatory

Automation

Spybot-S&D has two kind of automation settings û on system start and on program start. Here you can set whether to start the program when you start up your Windows, or to check for updates automatically, or to delay the scan on system start for a specified delay or until other programs (scanners) have terminated.

Log file settings

Spybot-S&D can write details about each scan into text files. Here you can select whether to do this, whether the date and time should be included in the filename, and whether to append or to overwrite the log file.

Look & Feel

You can switch a few details about the look of Spybot-S&D. Just try the options and see what look you like most.

Bug Report

If you are unsure about problems, you may send a bug report to PepiMK Software. This section is about how the mailing should be handled. You should at least select to include system information and scan results in the bug report (you can preview it before sending). Also, if you want to receive the same mail as PepiMK Software, you may select to send a copy to yourself (you need to change SMTP settings to do this û see the Bug Report help).

You can find the main settings by choosing Settings from the Settings section in the toolbar to the left.