If you check a product in this section, it will be excluded during the scan.

Ignore products: This is almost the same as File Sets, but you can browse deeper by category for each product that Spybot can detect.

Scheduler: In this section you can set up automatic Spybot scan schedules (if Windows scheduler is enabled) or view details of already set up schedules.

Installers that the user must explicitely download himself will only be scanned for in the directories entered into this list.

Directories: Some scans also target the installer files of the problems detected by Spybot-S&D.

From Settings you can changes options like essential warning and configuration dialogs, when to start Spybot – Search & Destroy, check for update automatically, etc.

Settings: All the default settings are the recommended you should have, but if you need some specific personalization or you want to revert a setting that you changed, this is the place to come and configure.

If you know what kind of spyware is in your system you can speed up the scan process by excluding the ones you don’t need.

File Sets: While it is always a good idea to scan for every threat in your computer, Spybot allows you to exclude certain problems from the scan.

First lets start with Settings, here we have:

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