I appreciate that we are much in the minority, but the suggestion to upgrade hardware and o/s is being proposed as the solution at the moment from what I can see. Someone suggested it was a $400 fix. Really? W98 may be out of support, but a new PC, new o/s, a whole bundle of new apps, the upgrade time, transfer time, learning curve, debugging time etc. is way over $400 even if I value my time at $0/ph. But in the real world time tends to be a bit more precious (and significantly more costly) than that. (Which, of course, is likely why the initial problem hasn't had much SB Team time devoted to it..!!)

Those of us still running W98 are doing so for a reason - it ain't just 'cos we's tight with our dosh..!!!

Bob.
I think you've misunderstood.That was not what I was suggesting.Windows 98 wasn't mentioned in bettenguy's post,and to be truthful I wasn't even thinking of Windows 98.I just quickly posted a Team Spybot member's response to someone that had the same problem,since I had some things to do.

Windows 98 is listed here on the Spybot supported operating systems page:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/p...ossupport.html
(Though I know many people with Windows 98/ME have had problems running the new 1.5.2 version.)
So,I don't suggest to people to upgrade their os to fix problems with Spybot,since they still support Windows 98/ME.

However,I do show people the End of Support page for Windows 98 and ME when they mention they have those operating systems,since those Operating Systems are no longer supported by Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sup...ofsupport.mspx

When you refer to the $400 fix suggestion,I think you're referring to bitman's post in another thread.That is here:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread...272#post186272
And those are very valid points.