Does Spybot Search and Destroy (v2.2) run an active open proxy on computers it's installed to?
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11. Why would it? 2. Why do you ask? – joeqwerty May 19 '14 at 22:18
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@joeqwerty I work at a IT department and apparently there have been a few abuse complaints. The common pattern is Spybot S&D. – Erikster May 19 '14 at 22:49
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No; of course it doesn't – Ramhound May 19 '14 at 23:29
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Well if it's installed on a Windows OS then fire up Microsoft Network Monitor and see if the Spybot S&D process is generating network traffic or is in the listening state. You could also run `netstat -a -n -o >C:\netstat.txt` from a command prompt to capture network connection info to a text file. – joeqwerty May 19 '14 at 23:40
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@joeqwerty I'll try that out. – Erikster May 19 '14 at 23:46
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@joeqwerty I saw a few S&D services listening at 0.0.0.0:21321 and set Firefox to use that address as a proxy. Firefox said the proxy refused to connect me when I tried accessing superuser.com, but it was fine connecting and searching on Google. – Erikster May 20 '14 at 00:21
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Redact that last one, Google searching works but trying to access google.com doesn't work. I'm guessing the search function doesn't use a proxy if one is configured. – Erikster May 20 '14 at 00:38
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Something to check: http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?69728-SDFSSvc-exe-Gone-Rogue – Erikster May 20 '14 at 21:40