Fixed the Antivirus Update Issue
I managed to fix the update issue on my laptop by renaming bdcore.dll file to bdcore_old.dll, I then performed an update and this time it was succeeded, the update also pulled down a new bdcore.dll file.
File location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Spybot - Search & Destroy 2\av
It does look like the original bdcore.dll was corrupt and was preventing the antivirus updates from working.
Thanks,
Martyn
When, exactly, will this be fixed?
Let me add my name to the growing list of people who are unhappy. I've just paid for and installed Spybot - Search & Destroy 2.3.39.0, but it won't install apparently-needed antivirus signature updates:
Quote:
[00:00.000] [i] Update started...
[00:14.891] [+] Installing antivirus signature updates...
[00:16.125] [-] Failed to install Spybot 2 antivirus signatures!
[00:16.125] [-] Failed to install Spybot 2 antivirus signatures!
The missing signatures:
Quote:
av\Plugins\7zip.xmd
av\Plugins\e_spyw.i00
av\Plugins\e_spyw.i49
av\Plugins\emalware.000
av\Plugins\emalware.594
av\Plugins\zoo.xmd
As if that's not enough, this utility refuses to run a scan! When, exactly, will these unacceptable failures be fixed? Silence by Safer-Networking Ltd. is definitely not golden in this case. Communicate with the paying (and non-paying) customers, please!
:banghead:
Bought recently licence for Spybot + AV 2.3 -> same error messages like anyone else
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Kane142
I am another with this problem.
I am running Windows 8.1 (64-bit) with Spybot+AV 2.3 Home Edition.
I can't do a System Scan, because I am missing some antivirus signatures. An update, however, fails to install these signatures.
I run Spybot with Admin privileges. The antimalware updates complete with no problems, and I can run Immunization.
The files it complains about are:
av\Plugins\7zip.xmd
e_spyw.i00
e_spyw.i49
emalware.000
emalware.594
zoo.xmd
I look in the av\Plugins directory, and I see all of these files present, but with an *.upd" suffix (which most of the files in this directory have).
If I delete these 6 files (viz., their *.upd versions), SpyBot Update will re-download them but then fails. There is no log file I can find that mentions what the failure is.
Since there are a lot of "*.upd" files present, but no files of the same name without the "*.upd", I am assuming these "*.upd" files are in fact (all) used to update another, database(?) file, and it is this update that is failing. Possibility these 6 update files are malformed, aborting the database(?) update, and leaving SpyBot without a complete or consistent set of antivirus signatures to work with.
Like everybody else, this is a very recent occurrence with me: Up until recently SpyBot was running OK.
I look forward to a fix.
and now? the larch? I tried for several days now to update. no probs with antimalware and immunization. but the AV-updates won't work - they were downloaded but not installed. and I cannot find any post how to get around this.