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A couple of times now when I try to update Spybot S&D, I'm getting a message stating "Bad Checksum". The download list comes up and the most recent updates are displayed, but when I click download, I'm getting a red "X" followed by "Detection Rules" and then the words "Bad Checksum!!" Can anybody tell me what's going on? Thanks, mike
Hi mikejamm
Try to download from another mirror.
Or download manually from here: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
JR
Various reasons for why it happens - most likely simply a mixup in the file download to your machine. It's a 'good thing' that the bad checksum fails (it checks itself by a protocol to ensure the file dl'd is the same as the source file, you can do basically the same thing manually with md5 or sha* digests if given).
As noted above by J', another mirror may help or simply re-do the update..
hth :)