can't uninstall S & D from my pc

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prestwoodbk

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when i run spybot it stops scanning about 2000 of 5500 files and gives me the message "user aborted scan". i tried uninstalling S& D both ways, through the program's uninstall, add & remove software, and manually deleting the folder after which i ran the registry patch and then reinstalled the beta version of SpyBot. when i run it, i get the same error message early in the scanning process: "user aborted scan". i think the problem is I cannot completely uninstall S&D from my pc. when i try to delete the Search and Destroy folder, i get this message: "cannot delete SDhelper.dll Access is Denied". Can you help me?

thanks

Brian
 
SDhelper.dll is used Spybot's Internet Explorer's Browser Helper Object (BHO). Before attempting to uninstall with Add/Remove Programs you should have uninstalled the BHO or at least stopped Internet Explorer.

Stop all Internet Explorer sessions before attempting to delete the C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy folder.

With the problem you have ("Scan aborted by user", "User abort! Scan was not completed successfully.", etc.), make sure that you also use this very small fix from the following to clean up Spybot's registry entries:

Please note: There appears some sort of change being made to Spybots reference pages from www.safer-networking.org urls to www.spybot.info urls. The link in the How to uninstall? WEB page to this very small fix seems to be broken, this one works (at the moment).
 
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