View Full Version : I really need some help
My little one (7) uses my computer all the time. Totally my fault - I should have taught him about adware and spyware - but I'm believing that now my computer is a mess.
I downloaded SpyBot Search and Destroy. And I get this error message when updating.
Error retrieving update info file! Socket Error #10061 Connection refused.
Can anyone help me? Thanks so much!
spybotsandra
2007-04-03, 09:57
Hello,
Please take a look at the security settings of your firewall (if you are using one) and make sure that Spybot-S&D is not blocked. That should help to get into the updates. If Spybot-S&D is not blocked it is also possible that our server is temporarily not available. Please try again a few hours later.
If this does not help please download the updates manually:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Here is the direct download link:
http://www.spybotupdates.com/updates/files/spybotsd_includes.exe
Just download and run that file - it is self-installing.
Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
Thank you so much Sandra. I did just that and it worked. Although your program fixed a lot of problems - I still have the one I started with. I cannot get a secondary popup to work on my computer. Example - I can get yahoo.com but if I want to check my mail - I get a DNS error. Same goes for looking at my bank statement - anywhere that there's a second. Can you help with this?