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Rowan
2008-12-09, 00:08
Hi, I installed Spybot 1.6 last night, upgrading from 1.5.3. Also, I visited a couple of TV show download sites that I hadn't visited before. Today when I ran spybot, I got huge numbers of error messages reading "Error during check! [filename] List index out of bounds.":sad: Many of the file names were scary, like "passive terror". Some were just annoying, like "bargainbuddy".
I can't figure out how to attach the screens that I printed into a word file to this -- maybe I can paste one here? Nope, that didn't work.

The scariest files were named: Smitfraud-C, Process Guard Killer, Blind Downloader, Passive Terror, but there were dozens. I can't find any of them when I search for them on my computer.

It is already after midnight here in Switzerland, but I will try to stay up late enough to get an answer about what to do.

Many thanks, Rowan

drragostea
2008-12-09, 00:14
Is the "SmitFraud" and "Passive Terror" results being detected (in red after the scan)? Or are you just seeing it under "Running bot-check..."?

The "List Index out of Bounds" error, when did you start seeing them? Installation? During a scan?
It seems from that the solution (from previous threads) is to perform a uninstall and reinstall.

Rowan
2008-12-11, 12:49
The "list index out of bounds" error messages were in the results of a scan. There were 48 different ones. The last three items in the scan results were the usual problems to be fixed (cookies from trackers). I ran an additional scan yesterday, and got 51 different "list index out of bounds" error messages, listing a different file name in each message, and one normal message about a problem to be fixed (another tracker cookie).

I sent a message directly to spybot help (not a forum) with the screens printed out and attached in a word document, but I have not heard back. If you have access to that message from me, you will be able to look at the results of the scan directly.

What I am worried about is that these files are actually on my computer as a result of my connecting to the free TB show sites. I am writing to you on a different computer because I haven't wanted to connect to the internet using the computer on which I'm getting the error messages as the result of a spybot scan.

Thanks for any advice you can give me,
Rowan