What's new in Portable Spybot Anti-Beacon 3.9.0.0
Feb 19, 2023
- Anti-Beacon 3.9 brings the usual small bugfixes (e.g. updates to OpenSSL 3.0), some preparations for localized versions to come, and a massive list of new tracking stuff it protects against. New are a lot of immunizers for Firefox, but there's also more Windows tracking and some bits for gamers. A complete list can be found at the below. Look for the update within Anti-Beacon or download from the website.
New in Portable Spybot Anti-Beacon 3.7.0.0 (May 4, 2021)
- New Protection:
- Apple Telemetry
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- Microsoft Windows Hard Disk Health Telemetry
- VMWare Customer Experience Program
- Wacom Experience Program
- Paddle Revenue Delivery Platform Analytics
- LogMeIn Telemetry
- CloudBees RollOut Telemetry
- Online-Metrix
- Hotjar.com Behavior Analytics
- Twilio Segment Customer Data Platform
- Adobe Marketo
- Fiksu
- Blizzard Battle.Net Telemetry
- Epic Games Telemetry
- GOG (Good Old Games) Telemetry
New in Portable Spybot Anti-Beacon 1.5.0.35 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Implemented /silent
- Added Office 15 (2013) Telemetry immunization (Group Policies & Scheduled Tasks)
- Added Office 16 (2016) Telemetry immunization (Group Policies & Scheduled Tasks)
- Hosts file block IP default changed from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0
- Added own group policy for hosts file read only flag
- Added own group policy for hosts file block IP
- Added own group policies for hiding each immunizer
- Added OpenSSL libraries to installer
- Added OpenSSL credits to About dialog
- Added own scheduled task
New in Portable Spybot Anti-Beacon 1.4.0.26 (Sep 18, 2015)
- Service names are now read from the registry to be in local language
- About dialog now has an update checker
- Added details option to Optional immunizers
- Added FAQ tab
- Change log moved to About dialog to avoid too many main tabs and standardize SNL app changelogs
- Added license to About dialog
- Height auto-adjusted to screens work area now
- Base immunization type for adding IPs to firewall
- Added license to installer
New in Portable Spybot Anti-Beacon 1.3 (Sep 18, 2015)
- Moved option to show/hide checkboxes to global button
- Added details for most entries
- Added task bar color progress
- Added task bar tasks
- Fixed hosts file locked issue
- Improved log output
- Added command line parameters
New in Portable Spybot Anti-Beacon 1.2 (Sep 18, 2015)
- Added Cortana group policy
- Added OneDrive service & goup policy
- Added CEIP scheduled task
- Added Remote Registry service (choose based on need)
- Fixed total status
- Added support for scheduled tasks
- Added fallback method to disable system services
- Added German localization
New in Portable Spybot Anti-Beacon 1.1 (Sep 18, 2015)
- Fixed hosts total count
- Added Optional tab, new search settings
- Added more hosts
- Fixed typos