After spending a couple of days solving 2 issues I gave up on v. 1.5 since this version is clearly related to a Fatal Exception (blue screen) error (05) each time I shutdown.
I tried installing twice the second time using cleansweep which removed even more residual code not found uninstalling the first time but still my problem remained.
Why it is settled that SB1.5 is clearly related to crashes on my computer?
I have been using SB1.3 for years without any issues at all. In the over ten years I've had the computer it has NEVER crashed shutting down.
When I install SB v1.5 (after finally solving the issues with "Unresponsive Scripts" and cookie exceptions problems each time) I still will get "Fatal Exception OE has occurred @ 0028.C02987A8 in VxD Vwin32(05) 000012D0 - The current application will be terminated" (infamous Blue Screen).
The "current application" is SB1.5.
Further proof it is SpyBot1.5
1. If SpyBot teatime is running then my computer will ALWAYS CRASH (tried six times).
2. If I Exit SpyBot Resident then my computer WILL NOT CRASH at all (tried 4 times).
Also it is worth noting that if I Turn the Resident OFF but do not EXIT teatimer the shutdown will either "freeze" or crash one or the other but it will ALWAYS crash if I have do nothing and just leave teatimer alone and running.
So since I crash with "Fatal Exceptions" (Blue Screen) errors with teatimer and do not without teatimer and the fact that Spybot1.3 works with no problems at all clearly is evidence that Spybot1.5 has to be related to the crashes on my computer.
As far as I understand it VxD errors are "Virtual Device Driver errors" and can be related to wrong code accessed or corrupted O.S. or can also be related to memory issues among other so many other issues as well.
I also understand that others most assuredly do not have WIN98SE computer crashes and it is uniquely my problem but since SB1.3 works fine and my O.S. seems to work fine I have to wonder if it is a combination of limited resources (96 RAM) and other applications I have running. Possibly on shutdown SpyBot1.5 is trying to access code no longer available since I have a memory manager that clears cache. I have read where a program can have a "stack problem" and be an array location outside of a valid range for example is "out of range". I haven't really been able to nail down the specific address of the error and thus do not know the direct cause... but...
considering that SB1.3 works and SB1.5 running is related to "Fatal Exception" crashes and I've spent so much time with this and other issues installing SB1.5 I have not the time to check further.
If anyone has advise or information it would be appreciated but at this point it is clear that in my case SB1.5 will not work at this time.