Installed 1.5.1.15 now IE won't launch

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

You have to immunize your system new.
After the install it is a fresh version, which does not immunize your computer automatically.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[graffixx]

Right. After the install, I applied all available updates and launched the app and went thru the steps (1-7).

During the "Immunize" step (right after downloading all updates), I clicked the button, but it didn't do anything.

No progress bars...
Protected = 0

I closed and reopened the app, clicked "Immunize" and it worked.

[graffixx]

I spoke to soon. IE won't launch if SDHelper is enabled. I even tried to update the Google Toolbar.

For now, I'll just leave SDHelper disabled.

[Sebioff]

I can confirm this.
Got the same problem on two different PCs (IE 6.0, WinXP) with every version of Spybot S&D higher than 1.4.

It's like a 50:50 chance that IE starts - or not.
Especially annoying if a popup window opens (which will cause the "parent" window to freeze as well)...

As soon as there is one of those hanging iexplore.exe's all other iexplore.exe-processes will stay active even after closing the browser windows and you've got to terminate them one by one by hand.

The hanging processes usually take about 14 MB RAM.


I hope that information helps somehow to fix the problem...i'd really like to use SDHelper, but that's just too annoying

[graffixx]

Thanks for confirming that my sanity is still in checked

[Mervich]

Am having the exact same problem with the exact same symptoms (as described by Sebioff). I believe it started with v1.4 and is still not corrected in v1.52. The only solution is to disable SDHelper, which is a valuable tool which I would much rather have running.

[md usa spybot fan]

Am having the exact same problem with the exact same symptoms (as described by Sebioff).

Mervich:

The questions asked earlier in this thread that neither you nor Sebioff appeared to answer were:

Do you also use the Google toolbar?
If so, which version? That can be found behind the Settings button on the toolbar, menu Help there, then Infos.

[Mervich]

Am running Google Toolbar v4.0.1602.1060. Installed Google Toolbar v5.0 Beta several days ago and found bugs...got an error message every time I closed the browser. Uninstalled v5 an reinstalled 4.0.1602.1060.

[Sebioff]

Google Toolbar 4.0.1601.4978 over here.

[Tom.K]

I'm using Google Toolbar 4.0.1601.4978, still using Spybot-S&D 1.5.1.15 (SDHelper enabled) and I don't have any problems with IE.
Maybe there is a problem in immunization.