SB Automatically "User Aborts"
3rd time I'm scanning and about a minute into each scan, the scan aborts with the message "User Abort! Scan was not completed successfully." and the status bar says "Scan aborted by user"
The problem is I am not aborting the scan.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mark.
Solution to User Abort Problems
Hello everyone, I experienced the same problem when running spybot and found this page and forum whilst searching for a solution on google. I downloaded the newst version of spybot (even though I was fairly sure I already had the newest version to begin with), but the problem persisted. I then went back to my original assumption, that a spyware or adware program was tricking spybot into the user abort. Spybot is an excellent program for its intended use, but I have unfortuantely ran into occasions in the past where its been tricked with similar results of a stopped scan before the spyware can be removed. I tried running adaware, which found approximately nothing, then went off in search of another spyware removal program to find the source of the problem. I ended up downloading one called Webroot Spy Sweeper (which is crap and makes you pay to update definition files, but the initial definition files should do the trick this time). It found a Windows Monitor program called "Win-Spy", and well.....here's the definition from spy sweeper: "Win-spy Monitor is an invisible utility that may log all keystrokes by all users and may take screenshots that are saved to a hidden folder." Icky, right? That's what I thought too...this nasty piece of work was apparently the cause of the problem in Spybot, tricking it into user aborting. Once I deleted this spyware, I ran Spybot again and it worked just fine. I'm assuming this was the cause.I hope this helps anyone else out there who has ran into a similar problem. Although it may not be the exact same program causing the user abort in everyone else's computers, I'm fairly certain its a similar song and dance routine.
Problems persisted. Need help.
Hi.
I had got that same error message the other day, so I followed the instructions above with the registry fix and everything.
Now I'm getting an error message when trying to install spybot again, and it goes as follows:
Error creating registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.disabled
RegCreateKeyEx failed; code 5
No access
Help appreciated.
Thanks.
P.S.
I've tried using jv16 PowerTools to clean up the registry, but that didn't help.