well, I gave up waiting for a useful answer, so I uninstalled 2.4 and put 1.6.2 back on for a while.
Then I downloaded the 2.4 installer from the website and installed with the installer removing old 1.6.2.
It seems to be working now, that is to say it is "Checking for antispyware updates"
next, to see if it will do the scan.
Zenobia
I was prompted to upgrade to version 2.4 .
So after some more months using 2.2 I deinstalled this version, installed v. 2.4.40.94
The same results: its trying to download updates forever with no avail.
So I went back to v. 2.2
Does it become better?
Thanks for your work
Hans
Hi.
Looking back,you were getting access denied messages when attempting to start some of the Spybot services,including the update service,correct?
I didn't find anything further on that,so far,unfortunately.
This is a link to Spybot support:
http://www.safer-networking.org/de/support/
You might want to contact them,and ask for help.Let them know everything you've done so far,or you could probably even give them the link to here,and your user name,if you're okay with that,and get their insight on it.