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1handclapping
2007-03-07, 14:04
I just downloaded Spybot since my system is infected with all kinds of would
sell u anti-virusn anti-spyware sellers. In effect running spybot showed these intruders and stated that they were removed. in fact they are not removed. Only at the beginning of the scan I get this message :

Service check :
The services.sbs file is missing Please use the...

Is there an explanation to what I should do to recover the sbs.file ? Is this the cause the removal of the pests totally failed ?:oops:

spybotsandra
2007-03-07, 14:35
Hello,

This error occurs if you used a beta version before installing Spybot-S&D version 1.4.
Please remove the following directories:
C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Includes
C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates
After downloads please use the update function to download all detection files. If this doesn't solve the problem please uninstall your current version of Spybot-S&D according to this link:
http://www.safer-networking.de/en/faq/27.html
It is important to use the small fix.
Now go to our download page and download Spybot-S&D version 1.4:
http://www.safer-networking.de/en/download/index.htm

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

Jet_Jaguar
2007-04-18, 20:03
Hi:

I'm getting the same error with the same (lack of) results. It's a new non-beta install that worked in the past on other computers.

The suggestions didn't work and this link

If this doesn't solve the problem please uninstall your current version of Spybot-S&D according to this link:
http://www.safer-networking.de/en/faq/27.html

Will only resolve to the main page of the Spybot web site.

Do you have any more tips? Thanks.

Zenobia
2007-04-18, 20:26
Here,this should take you to it.Link changed on page a bit ago,I think,and above is a bit older post.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/howto/uninstall.html

Jet_Jaguar
2007-04-19, 18:19
The resolution to this problem is worth mentioning.

Yesterday (with my new install of 1.4 on a "clean" computer) had a problem updating. Two updates were "bad checksum" from any site.

Today doing a manual update from the main spybot site fixed the "service.sbs file missing" error. All seems to be working well.