Cannot Immunize Global Hosts

[SunToucher]

Good Afternoon,

I have been attempting to immunize 37 Global Hosts under the Windows section in the Immunization tab. I have the latest updates and I have full Administrator rights on my laptop.

Everything else has been immunized as this is confirmed in the "Totals" showing what is unprotected versus protected. When I hit immunize it proceeds to do so until it gets to the "global hosts" section under the Windows heading and it does not finish the immunization, but it does not hang. I left my laptop all night with Spybot on, hoping when I got up in the morning that it would have finished the immunization. Unfortunately it had not, but neither had the green bar reached 100% immunization marked. The green bar was approximately 95% finished.

Hope this all makes sense. Anyway I was wondering if someone else has encountered this before and if there is a possible solution?

I thank you for whatever help you can pass my way.

Cheers,

SunToucher

[md usa spybot fan]

Please try the following:

• Go into Spybot > Immunize.
• Right click on the right hand pane and select "Deselect all".
• Scroll down to the bottom of the right hand pane and under Windows check "Global (Hosts)".
• Click the "Undo" button at the top of the right pane.
• Then click the "Immunize" button at the top of the right pane.

[SunToucher]

Hi md,

I tried your suggestion and the green bar went up to 100% on the immunize bar at the top of the right hand pane after doing what you had suggested, but unfortunately it didn't immunize the 37 global hosts. I tried it a couple of times. Is there a way to open up the global host definitions and manually check them off as immunize?

[SunToucher]

Update: Well I kept hitting immunize and it finally worked. I shut down my computer first then rebooted and hit immunize 3 times and the 37 global hosts are now all immunized. I'm not sure what did it, but I'm getting an error message now. It states;

List index out of bounds (1)

I have no clue what that means.

SunToucher

[Terminator]

A few people are reporting this weird error, this thread should help http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=23942

[SunToucher]

Right on thanks Terminator, I'll check it out.

[SunToucher]

I delete the program and have re-installed it. It has immunized everything and I have had no error messages. It appears everything is now functioning normally.

Thanks all for you help.

SunToucher

[SunToucher]

Hello,

Once again I'm having issues with immunizing the Global (hosts).

Of the 8012 Global (hosts) I can only immunize 8008, ergo 4 hosts are left un-immunized. I tried using the solution from before, but that does not work. Are there other possible solutions? The problem started occurring again since I updated with the new definitions.

[SunToucher]

I can't seem to figure out why the global (hosts) will not be immunized, ergo I shall remove Spybot for the time being and return sometime in the future when it is hopefully working properly.

[129260]

the firewall, and you have it set to lock the host file, or any program set to lock the host file, soybot will be unable to immunize fully. I had the same issue, until i unlocked the host file and then spybot could immunize it fine. hope that helps you!