SuperAntiSpyware 5 released

Updated last night & while the new GUI looks nice, I have yet to test out it's (improved?)features & functionality.

I installed it today. Had to do a restart to get it to install completely.

Ran a Quick Scan and it took less than 4 minutes. Previous version took 17 minutes for the same Quick Scan.

The Quick Scan found nothing. While I'd like to think my computer is clean I point to my post about it not finding tracking cookies for me going back to the last version. And it still doesn't find them. I know it finds cookies for most users (at least the old version did) so that is concerning to me.

edit: Ran a Full Scan and it has hung up twice. It happens at the same spot, a $RECYCLE.BIN file. The second time I let it run and after about eight minutes it finally got going again. Could that file be that big? If so I should find it and delete it. How though? I think that is a hidden file.

I always run a full scan, and so far have not had any problems, perceived or otherwise with SAS, except for the lack of results now that I am using SAS.5 .

I think it is a little hasty at this point in the evolution of SAS.5 to trash the program, and I am willing to wait to see if the bug reports start to increase to a point where more information is available.

As far as a replacement why not revert back to SAS.4?

This link will lead to FileHippo's SAS.5 page, but to the right you will see a list of older versions you may want to go back to: Download SuperAntiSpyware 5.0.1108 - and Older Versions - FileHippo.com

As A Guy says here:
SuperAntiSpyware 5 released

It could be a matter of how the browsers are treating cookies when they close, and SAS.5 is reviewing their Folders after they close.

This is speculation on my part , but maybe SAS.4 kept a running count while the browsers are open, and quarantining them while they are open, then probably re-scanning the browser Folders to make sure that it did not miss anything.

Then a user needs to understand how SAS treats malware. It seems SAS has a Black, and White list:

SUPERAntiSpyware is designed to detect and remove the most harmful spyware, adware, malware, dialer, worm and keylogger components and applications.

Source:
Will SUPERAntiSyware remove ALL the spyware on my system? - SUPERAntiSpyware.com


The deal with your $RECYCLE.BIN problem might be a bad download, and/or installer. Recycle bin on drive c:\ is corrupted pop up?? - SUPERAntiSpyware.com
This page has a link for the installer package:
SUPERAntiSpyware.com - Frequently Asked Questions

It is also possible that your Recycle Bin is corrupted, this will show you how to repair it:
Recycle Bin Corrupted - Cannot Delete File or Folder - Vista Forums

Have you had any other problems with the Recycle Bin?

Ccleaner lower left Wipe free space will clean $Recycle Bin and still leave restore points. It will take a long time. All the things that you think you have removed go to the $Recycle Bin and when needed will be wrote over.