that is very odd! I hope we can help you solve this problem.

1.) Can you please tell us if you changed anything with your system, settings, etc. after installing the latest version of spybot? Did you uninstall spybot and then install the latest version, or did you simply install the latest version over the old version?

2.) If i understand this correctly, these 2 issues happened immediately after you installed the latest version of spybot?

3.) Where did you download spybot from? This site?

4.) Did the scandisk (chkdsk) find any errors on the hard drive when you let it run?

Thanks for any info you can provide.