Opera Immunization Broken

[lewisje]

I have the cookies4.dat and urlfilter.ini files in the %AppData%\Opera\Opera\ directory (where Opera 10 and later actually use them), in the %AppData%\Opera\Opera\profile directory (where Spybot normally looks for them, along with the plugin-ignore.ini file), and in the %ProgramFiles%\Opera\defaults directory (where Spybot has also looked for a plugin-ignore.ini file), and I even tried the %ProgramFiles%\Opera\ directory...

...but starting with today's detection updates, Spybot immunization doesn't seem to detect cookies4.dat (Cookies) or urlfilter.ini (Content) anymore, although it does detect plugin-ignore.ini (Plugins) in both places.

Is this an error, or is Spybot no longer immunizing Opera against bad content? If it's neither, where is Spybot now looking for cookies4.dat and urlfilter.ini?

[Eagle2a]

I'm following up on lewisje's post because coincidentally I was about to ask the very same question. I noticed that Spybot would not detect and immunize Opera 10.xx if its files (cookies4.dat, urlfilter.ini, etc.) were located in the default location:

C:\Windows\Application Data\Opera\Opera

However, on my laptop which had been updated to Opera 10.xx from an earlier version (9.64), the same Opera files were located in a different location:

C:\Windows\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile

and Spybot was able to detect and immunize Opera as a result. Is there any way to force Spybot to detect the existence of Opera with its files in the former (default) location? This certainly is a bug that should be easily fixed, IMO. Thanks for any help or advice.

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

This seems to be a common problem where no solution is present at the moment. With the new version Opera has made some changes, that affect the immunization. Please deactivate the cookie immunization of Spybot-S&D, to complete the immunization. Please note that after undoing the immunization of Opera 10 a re-immunization of Opera 10 currently may not be possible, even if Spybot-S&D shows a success.
We are working on this item to solve this problem as soon as possible.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[lewisje]

The "Cookies" section doesn't even show up; nor does the "Content" section, and it worked continuously until last week, and ever since I upgraded to Opera 10 back in September I noticed Spybot was still looking in the old places for the urlfilter.ini and cookies4.dat files, so I kept them there and copied them over to the new places whenever they were re-immunized.

I have attached a screenshot showing the results of running the scan again, and also showing that the necessary files are in both the spot where Spybot used to look for them and in the spot where Opera uses them; in case you're wondering, I also have two copies of plugin-ignore.ini, one of which was actually made by Spybot in the defaults directory of my Opera program directory and the other of which is visible in the screenshot, and I have two different user accounts, both of which are variations on my real name (which I have erased), and I keep ol' Netscape 9 around so I can test sites in a browser that still uses the Firefox 2 engine, even though I fully realize that it went EOL almost 2 and a half years ago.


It's not a result of upgrading to Opera 10: I have upgraded as soon as the new stable versions were released and Spybot had no problem dealing with the old versions of the files kept in the places where Opera 9 had used them, and I even had the exact same version (10.6) last week (using the update from 7 July 2010) when Spybot successfully detected the urlfilter.ini and cookies4.dat files in %APPDATA%\Opera\Opera\profile; absolutely nothing changed about my setup in the past week except for downloading the 14 July 2010 update yesterday.

In case it helps, you may notice that the "Plugins" sections were marked as "Opera 4+"; meanwhile, back when Spybot still detected the cookies4.dat and urlfilter.ini files, the respective "Cookies" and "Content" sections were marked as "Opera 7+"
so maybe when the update was packaged, the "Opera 7+" part of the immunization code was unintentionally omitted...

[Eagle2a]

Yeah I don't think they get it either, lewisje. So if I understand you right, you keep copies of Opera files in the \profile subdirectory where Spybot apparently looks for them, and this has successfully worked until the latest update yesterday?

[lewisje]

Yeah I don't think they get it either, lewisje. So if I understand you right, you keep copies of Opera files in the \profile subdirectory where Spybot apparently looks for them, and this has successfully worked until the latest update yesterday?

Yes; Spybot would detect those files and update them, and then I'd just copy the re-immunized files to the place where Opera actually looks for them now.