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Groffeaston
2009-07-13, 09:14
Hello everyone!

I have tried to update Spybot S&D after not using it for over a week and having problems with my computer. Now I cannot get it to update. I get an error message as follows: "Error retrieving update info file!" Then another message comes up with the following: "System Error. Code: 5. Acces is denied"

The problems that I had with my computer were: some updates for Windows Vista would not install properly due to interence from McAfee's programs. So I had to unistall McAfee programs and then fix some of the Window Vista System files that were either corrupted, missing, or had some missing info. Then I had to do a clean reboot, then download and install the updates. Then reboot my computer in normal mode. Then Download and reinstall Mcafee. It took 8 1/2 hours to complete. All with the help of a Microsoft Computer Tech. Most of that time the Tech shared control of my computer to help diagnose what was wrong and causing my problems.

I do not know if any what we did during that may have had an affect on Spybot or not. My other programs were able to update normally, except Spybot.

Can anyone help?

Matt
2009-07-13, 10:27
Hi Groffeaston,

:welcome: to Safer Networking Forums.

what you can try:

Please try to uninstall Spybot completely (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/howto/uninstall.html) from your computer (uninstall with Add/Remove feature in the control center, reboot, delete all leavings).

After that, download and install Spybot 1.6.2 from here (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/ownmirrors2/index.html).