btfool
2006-03-03, 14:53
I downloaded Spybot 1.4 twice for 2 computers at a friends house, and neither copy worked...
One copy ran for just a few seconds, and only checked for 29 problems. Others have had this problem, too:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=2417
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=2462
The other copy would not scan at all. It kept saying that I had to run an update first, but when I hit the update button it would not find any new updates.
Other people are reporting this as well:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=2734
I noticed that instead of a list of about 6 servers (BN, See Cure, and Safer Networking) in the update mirror drop-down list, there was only 1 that I had never heard of before (Eon in Australia). I suspect that this person may be experiencing this too, but they never followed up in their thread:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=2301
I read through a lot of threads in the forums, and I ended up looking at the File Sets on both computers. Both had only 2 entries, "Spybot - Search & Destroy" and "Usage Tracking" which is quite wrong, as there should be a much longer list of file sets.
Then I found this post by md, http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=11637&postcount=3, which got my curiosity going about the spybotsd.ini file. I checked my update download log, and I had downloaded spybotsd.ini 9 times between 3:11am US Central and 3:38am US Central (see my upload, 417).
At about 3:46am, I decided to download a copy of spybotsd.ini straight from safer-networking.org, at http://www.safer-networking.org/updates/spybotsd.ini Check out what I got: 418. Yes, a spybotsd.ini for version 1.1 with only 1 dead server listed! What the heck happened???
I downloaded it again at 4:11am, and I got a valid version 1.4 spybotds.ini (which is 43k but the forum limits file size to 39.1k, so I can't upload it). I copied it over "c:\program files\spybot - search & destroy\updates\online.ini", and now Spybot updates and scans correctly.
Cheers,
btfool
:bigthumb:
One copy ran for just a few seconds, and only checked for 29 problems. Others have had this problem, too:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=2417
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=2462
The other copy would not scan at all. It kept saying that I had to run an update first, but when I hit the update button it would not find any new updates.
Other people are reporting this as well:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=2734
I noticed that instead of a list of about 6 servers (BN, See Cure, and Safer Networking) in the update mirror drop-down list, there was only 1 that I had never heard of before (Eon in Australia). I suspect that this person may be experiencing this too, but they never followed up in their thread:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=2301
I read through a lot of threads in the forums, and I ended up looking at the File Sets on both computers. Both had only 2 entries, "Spybot - Search & Destroy" and "Usage Tracking" which is quite wrong, as there should be a much longer list of file sets.
Then I found this post by md, http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=11637&postcount=3, which got my curiosity going about the spybotsd.ini file. I checked my update download log, and I had downloaded spybotsd.ini 9 times between 3:11am US Central and 3:38am US Central (see my upload, 417).
At about 3:46am, I decided to download a copy of spybotsd.ini straight from safer-networking.org, at http://www.safer-networking.org/updates/spybotsd.ini Check out what I got: 418. Yes, a spybotsd.ini for version 1.1 with only 1 dead server listed! What the heck happened???
I downloaded it again at 4:11am, and I got a valid version 1.4 spybotds.ini (which is 43k but the forum limits file size to 39.1k, so I can't upload it). I copied it over "c:\program files\spybot - search & destroy\updates\online.ini", and now Spybot updates and scans correctly.
Cheers,
btfool
:bigthumb: