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    I'm having the same problem as well. I thought maybe there was a possability I screwed something up systemr estoring too many times, but that never really seems to've affected SpyBot before. Several months....darn I wonder when this is gonna get fixed. Not even downloading the detection rules update separately worked!

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    Quote Originally Posted by md usa spybot fan View Post
    It appears that the www.safer-networking.org/updates/spybotsd.ini file which controls the updates was released before the updates were actually staged on the update mirrors.

    I suggest that you try again after the 2008-11-04 or 2008-11-05 updates are announced in the Announcements forum.

    THANKS for the Heads-Up
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    Same problem here. I was having some suspicious activity on my XP laptop. My anti-virus keeps disabling itself. I went to update Spybot S&D and run a scan, but I'm getting the bad checksum. I assumed that some malware had compromised my Spybot, so I actually uninstalled it and installed the latest version only to discover the same problem. Feeling a little exposed. Any way to get the updates?

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    So many problems with Spybot lately, of which "Bad Checksum!!" is just one.

    Spybot used to be a quality product. Not any more.

    I am removing it from my computer and replacing it with another, higher quality program that at least has its act together with regard to definition updates.

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    Same problem!! but we wait for the fix!!!

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    Hello,

    It should be fixed now.

    Best regards
    Sandra
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    Cool .. no biggie (;

    We are somewhat spoiled in having (usually) quite regular updates. Almost always every Wednesday for quite some time now. This may be both good and not quite so good, of course depending on how rigorous a schedule, etc. as applies to ones needs and expectations.

    Surely Team is doing their best and that's always more than good enough for me, lol. The knot is best loosely untied . . today, tomorrow - time is relative

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    The following are email messages:
    Quote Originally Posted by White Phoenix
    I tried to update Spybot just a little while ago and despite selecting
    different servers, I received “bad checksum” errors. I went to the
    forum for answers and to report the problem. Apparently this has been
    going on since June and is still going on. No one has left a post on the
    thread to let us know what is going on. What good does it do to have a
    forum for support if no one from Team Spybot reads it?

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    Sincerely,
    White Phoenix
    Quote Originally Posted by Team Spybot
    We are sorry, but we made a little mistake yesterday in the preparation of the updates. Therefore we upload the updates today earlier as usual. Further we will improve our tools for the automatic update monitoring. From now on such errors should be alerted by the system before the updates will be uploaded. We will also run sheduled tasks every few hours to see if the update servers are really working.

    --
    Best Regards,
    Meik
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    I'm getting the same problem as other Posters. I thought this issue would be fixed by now. Also, it's taking forever for any files to download. I've never had these problems before. What's going on??

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    What kind of connection do you have? Dial-up? DSL?
    Are you downloading anything else when you are updating Spybot-SD?

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