No updates this week?

[drghughes]

Has anyone running Spybot Free got any definition updates this week?

I've run the updater a number of times and Spybot says that I'm up to date, but when I check the details, the last updates were added on 6 April 2022.

Thanks

[tashi]

Hello drghughes,

As I type this, it appears the last update was 2022-04-06.

Best,

tashi

[drghughes]

Thanks tashi!

Does that mean that we're seeing a reduction in the flow of malware? :laugh:

[tashi]

:laugh::funny:

[drghughes]

No updates again this week.

I just checked https://twitter.com/SpybotSD where the weekly updates are normally announced and there is no announcement for this week or last week.

Does anyone know what is going on?

[(m/f)]

We have encountered some problems with our update servers for the free version, we are currently at it and hope to be done today. Thank you for your patience.

[(m/f)]

Updates are released and posts can be found in our social media channels. Stay safe everyone!

[drghughes]

Thanks m/f!

I've been able to get most updates, but Malware-C.sbi seems to be a problem as I'm repeatedly getting this error:


[00:00.000] [i] Update started...
[00:00.008] [+] Updating Service is active.
[00:00.013] [.] Trying to retrieve update info file from http://updates2.safer-networking.org/spybotsd2.uid...
[00:00.886] [+] Retrieved update info file.
[00:01.766] [.] Info file part done.
[00:01.973] [+] Malware-C.sbi (version 20220330) needs to be updated (to version 20220421).
[00:02.093] [.] Downloading updates...
[00:02.107] [+] File "Malware-C.sbi" needs to be downloaded.
[00:02.768] [+] Unable to download archive "Malware-C.sbi-20220421.cab" from http://sbsd-dl-eu.com/spybot2/!
[00:03.390] [+] Unable to download archive "Malware-C.sbi-20220421.cab" from http://updates4.safer-networking.org/spybot2/!
[00:03.980] [+] Unable to download archive "Malware-C.sbi-20220421.cab" from http://updates2.safer-networking.org/spybot2/!
[00:03.985] [+] All files have been processed.
[00:03.995] [+] Installed 1 updates.
[00:04.105]

Could you please take a look.

[notaninja]

Most probably same problem as above ^ so will not open support ticket unless advised.

Errors as follows:


[00:00.000] [i] Update started...
[00:00.015] [+] Updating Service is active.
[00:00.015] [.] Trying to retrieve update info file from http://updates2.safer-networking.org/spybotsd2.uid...
[00:00.859] [+] Retrieved update info file.
[00:01.718] [.] Info file part done.
[00:01.734] [+] Trojans-C.sbi (version 20220330) needs to be updated (to version 20220421).
[00:01.750] [+] PUPS-C.sbi (version 20220330) needs to be updated (to version 20220421).
[00:01.750] [+] Malware-C.sbi (version 20220330) needs to be updated (to version 20220421).
[00:01.765] [+] Adware-C.sbi (version 20220330) needs to be updated (to version 20220406).
[00:01.765] [.] Downloading updates...
[00:01.781] [+] File "Adware-C.sbi" needs to be downloaded.
[00:02.940] [+] Downloaded archive "Adware-C.sbi-20220406.cab" from http://freewarearchiv.com/spybot2/.
[00:02.940] [-] Hash 98d03cddbc2b6b6b2f4005f92383e24c for archive "Adware-C.sbi-20220406.cab" does not match expected hash 27B1EDFFE9BB40ED4FDBC315DA75B345!
[00:02.940] [+] File "Malware-C.sbi" needs to be downloaded.
[00:03.893] [+] Unable to download archive "Malware-C.sbi-20220421.cab" from http://sbsd-dl-eu.com/spybot2/!
[00:04.518] [+] Unable to download archive "Malware-C.sbi-20220421.cab" from http://sbsd-dl-uk.com/spybot2/!
[00:05.721] [+] Downloaded archive "Malware-C.sbi-20220421.cab" from http://updates3.safer-networking.org/spybot2/.
[00:05.721] [+] Extracted "Malware-C.sbi-20220421.cab"!
[00:05.721] [+] Installed "Malware-C.sbi".
[00:05.721] [+] File "PUPS-C.sbi" needs to be downloaded.
[00:06.299] [+] Unable to download archive "PUPS-C.sbi-20220421.cab" from http://updates2.safer-networking.org/spybot2/!
[00:06.909] [+] Unable to download archive "PUPS-C.sbi-20220421.cab" from http://updates5.safer-networking.org/spybot2/!
[00:07.315] [+] Unable to download archive "PUPS-C.sbi-20220421.cab" from http://sbsd-dl-us.com/spybot2/!
[00:07.315] [+] File "Trojans-C.sbi" needs to be downloaded.
[00:07.974] [+] Unable to download archive "Trojans-C.sbi-20220421.cab" from http://sbsd-dl-eu.com/spybot2/!
[00:08.646] [+] Downloaded archive "Trojans-C.sbi-20220421.cab" from http://freewarearchiv.com/spybot2/.
[00:08.646] [-] Hash 35a78c9c5f2f8607e7f07891084669bc for archive "Trojans-C.sbi-20220421.cab" does not match expected hash F128D3758742C686D33AF5E1CEE2039A!
[00:08.646] [+] All files have been processed.
[00:08.646] [+] Installed 4 updates.
[00:16.197]

[drghughes]

I've now been able to download all the definition updates, so looks like everything is back to normal.

[(m/f)]

Thank you everyone for your feedback. The unexpected hash error is something that can happen when the file has not been downloaded correctly. Usually updating again after a few minutes solves this problem.