Hello,

Over the past couple of years I have started a number of threads to report that Spybot was having trouble finishing scans on my Windows 98 computer, and trying to solve the problem from various angles. The issue specifically was that SS&D would run through 99.9% of the scan, and then come to a halt with an error message about an invalid page fault or something to that effect. (Details easily searchable on this forum under "Windows 98".)

Well, this week the system (independently of Spybot) got to the point where it became virtually unusable, with a growing number of "illegal operation" messages from various sources, so I finally broke down and did a clean install of Win98 on a new hard disk. After downloading all the critical Windows Updates and hunting down the various hardware drivers, the next thing I did was to install Spybot anew, update it, and run a scan.


Lo and behold, the scan finished! So whatever was causing Spybot to fail, was not related to Windows 98 -- or at least not directly.

So, for the remaining Win98 diehards out there, I can confirm that SS&D does still work well on that system... you just need to clean out the crud.

--JorgeA