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koolking
2006-10-05, 02:48
As it has been said on the web time,and time again "An anti-virus is only as strong as it's updates" or something like that. So what i want to know is why S&D isn't letting me dl required security updates. Now i know the S&D team most likely isn't at falt. To back up this theory i present to you evedence a: I was downloading S&D updates for my computer when my mom comes downstairs and shuts down the process right then and there. S&D un-able to update has been giving me update errors every time i try to update. Now i know poepl are going to say that i should just dl manual updates but i just just want to put ths out there so that the S&D team can mabye but this as a new feature. It would be kinda like how in FireFox whenever my mom shuts my off my computer when i stay up too late on it, it just recovers from that piont and continues doing what is was doing. And i am training as a computer specialist right now untill i can get into a magnet school to do special studies to become a computer tech guy or even a game designer, so i would know when i see somethign that could bring in alot of customers. I personally swiched to S&D when Norton "anti-virus" was telling me alot of crud and stuff so i went onto NG and went to the "Computer Hospital" thread and it recommended me to dl this, and that's how i got started. Well tell me what you think about my 2cents about my problem. And i'm sorry for not really staying on topic if i didn't, i have a problem. =)

tashi
2006-10-05, 06:51
Hi there.

You still need an Anti Virus program as Spybot-S&D is an Anti Spyware program.

I certainly have never recommended Norton which I consider ineffectual among other things:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=7683

There are other programs which do a better job and without being an expensive resource hog.

So how did I get infected in the first place? By Tony Klein (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=279)

I suggest you uninstall Spybot-S&D, reinstall and from then on your PC needs to be shut down by the proper method. Rule of thumb for Windows. ;)

Spybot-S&D 1.4

Version 1.4 :Systems Supported (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html)

Uninstalling Previous Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/27.html)

Spybot-S&D Version 1.4 Download (http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html)

Tutorial (http://www.spybot.info/en/tutorial/index.html)