What is Bad Checksums ? ?

[William Young]

I just joined this site today. When I run updates I get a long string of *bad checksums* . Please explain what this means and what I should do about it.
Thanks
W.Y.

[md usa spybot fan]

A Bad Checksum indicates that the MD5 hash value of the downloaded file did not match the expected MD5 hash value of that file. In other words, the file downloaded file was not received correctly.

For a method to overcome the problem see:
http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=345&postcount=2

Also see:
When updating, why do I get an error message that the "update is forbidden" / "bad checksum!!!"?
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/20.html

And:
How to update the program to the newest version
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/howto/update.html

[William Young]

Thank you very much for the quick reply. I followed your instructions and eliminated 12 bad checksums and everything is now up to date .
W.Y.