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When you are in the administrators account, can you get to system restore, or failing that can you uninstall Spybot (you update download may have been corrupted in some way)

Can you re-boot and immediately after POST, start and continue to tap F8 key, and when the blue screen dialogue opens, select "last known good configuration" and hit enter key.
Windowsmay sort...

Can you do a system restore back to a point immediately before updating Spybot ?

Try the hosts immunisation in safe mode, worked for me.

Look at my previous posts.

No, don't dump Opera...........dump Spybot.

At least, dump the latest version and go back to version 1.4 until all these bugs in the newer version are sorted out.

Version 1.4 is still being...

Thank you Wingspar and Tashi for your replies.

I understand what dummies are, and why Spybot invokes them. That, however, does not explain the presence of a Dummy prog. in the open with list.
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Hello, I have exactly the same problem which I have resolved in the short term by disabling the floppy drive (ok as I never used it anyway).
However, a proper solution would be preferable, but like...

Can anyone throw some light on an odd thing that I have just noticed ?

Running XP SP2, spybot s+d version 1.4

When I right click on a data file of any sort, be it an image, Word document ,...