Immunization not working...

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

Please also try to click a second time on the immunization tab after immunizing.
Does this change anything?

If this does not help please try the following:
1. Start your PC in safe mode.
2. Launch Spybot.
3. Unselect all the options in the immunization tab except the ones which are not immunized.
4. Undo Immunization.
5. Redo Immunization.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[a4nic8er]

Hello,

Please also try to click a second time on the immunization tab after immunizing.
Does this change anything?

If this does not help please try the following:
1. Start your PC in safe mode.
2. Launch Spybot.
3. Unselect all the options in the immunization tab except the ones which are not immunized.
4. Undo Immunization.
5. Redo Immunization.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

Ok. Tried that, several times. Appeared to work until reboot into normal mode but I suspect it was just moving the unprotected items around again. Upon normal restart and Immunization check, I end up with 5919 unprotected items in IE 32 bit (Domains). Uncheck everything but that section, undo, immunize. Looks ok. Select all, check again. Now have 1857 unprotected in IE 32 bit (secure domains) plus 1857 unprotected in IE 64 bit (secure domains). Deselect all but those two, undo, immunize, have to 1857 in IE 64 bit (secure domains). Stuff this, select all, check again, 1857 unprotected in IE 64 bit (secure domains), right back where we started from.

SpybotS&D won't immunize IE 64 bit (secure domains) properly, but appears to be immunizing 32 bit IE ok. While wondering if this is going to be rectified, I will make sure not to use 64 bit IE 8.

[Sephiroth]

tried your suggestions to no avail. I had already tried immunizing multiple times and that never worked. It seems to have a set number of immunizations it simply refuses to do and shuffles around what cannot be immunized. This is now also affecting a friend's computer, which is XP Pro 32bit. He has IE6 also since XP becomes unusable for his system (512MB RAM) if he installs 7 or 8.

[Sephiroth]

Alright after the latest Spybot updates it immunized some, but not all entries. However, I decided to try my weekly chore of selecting only the ones that won't immunize and undo the immunization, then redo it. This worked on a few, so I deselected those, and after multiple times of chasing the immunization bug around (immunize one, another loses immunization) I finally got everything immunized. This is ALL IE-related. The hosts file and FF immunize perfectly each time. We'll see what happens when the team releases another update though...

[a4nic8er]

Latest update: No better, worse if anything.

2193 Immunization failures, spread all over.



Took 10 -15 minutes of rebooting into safe mode, immunize, check again, select each section, undo, redo, check again, reboot in normal mode, check again, select each section, undo, immunize, check again, select all, check again, undo, immunize, check again - just to get the 2193 failures into the same section - IE (64 bit) \SOFTWARE (Secure Domains).

Still no such issue with XP 32 bit or W7 RC 64 bit, only XP 64 bit!

Also noted that it takes 50 seconds to exit SS&D on XP 64 bit while it "unloads user registry hives." This takes less than 1 second with XP 32 bit and W7 RC 64 bit.

And in case you are wondering, I have completed full virus scans (Avast), Live Onecare scan, rootkit scan (Sophos), HJT (all with a clean bill of health).

[a4nic8er]

New update, same old crap.

Chased the failed immunizations around the various sections for a while until I stumbled accross a method for quickly geting them all into IE (64 bit) \SOFTWARE (Secure Domains).

1. Start SS&D immunization and "Undo" (remove all SS&D immunizations).
2. Start SpywareBlaster and "Disable all protection".
3. Return to SS&D and Immunize. 2217 immunization failures in IE (64 bit) \SOFTWARE (Secure Domains).
4. Return to SpywareBlaster and "Enable all protection".
5. Close SpywareBlaster.
6. In SS&D, "Check Again". Still have 2217 immunization failures in IE (64 bit) \SOFTWARE (Secure Domains).

[a4nic8er]

2277 now