Suddenly v 1.51 wouldn't run - beta2 fixed the problem.

[Reggie Stry]

Why the sudden problems with version 1.51? After not running Spybot S&D for about a month, I decided to run the program, update and run it. Unfortunately, I kept getting a message that said Spybotsd.exe has generated errors and is closing. I then uninstalled the program, downloaded another version from this site, ran it, and then nothing. The task manager showed spybotsd.exe was running and using about 95% of the CPU, but the program never loaded.

I had read in the forums that some versions were causing very slow load times, so I uninstalled Spybot again and went back to the forums looking for a beta.

I don't know how I found it, because I can't find the thread again, but the "Helloween" version, spybotsd15he-beta2.exe. solved the problem. The program is running fine now (although a scan took nearly a half hour).

Why is it that when I search for the beta2 version using your search feature, there are no matches? I've tried searching for "beta2" and "spybotsd15he", no matches appear (after about 4 attempts at image verification and trying to figure out which letters are capitalized!) I'm sure I saw a link to it posted in a thread. When I just opened several beta threads again, I saw one link to scanwith.com that lead to the beta2 version, but I can't find the first sticky post I saw that linked to it.

One suggestion - can the administrator place the beta links or a link to a summary beta thread on the download url page? It's not easy to find the beta versions, and quite often those are the only ones that work for some reason.

Is it possible that because I have Spybot set to download beta files during updates, it's possible that the last update with the old 1.5 version that crashed downloaded a version of Spybot that didn't agree with my OS security setup?