Hello,

I am running Windows 10 Home, Version 20H2, OS Build 19042.1466
Over the last few months, my system would reboot randomly, maybe two or three times a day.
Today, I began investigating why this is happening. Upon examination of the event log, I find that there are many events that say SDUpdate.exe is faulting. Here is a copy if one of those events:

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 1/15/2022 6:24:25 AM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Lee-New-DESKTOP
Description:
Faulting application name: SDUpdate.exe, version: 2.8.68.100, time stamp: 0x5ea5e0d1
Faulting module name: SDUpdate.exe, version: 2.8.68.100, time stamp: 0x5ea5e0d1
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00005c92
Faulting process id: 0x1a74
Faulting application start time: 0x01d80a1336658ca9
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Spybot - Search & Destroy 2\SDUpdate.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Spybot - Search & Destroy 2\SDUpdate.exe
Report Id: aa2dac4f-ce25-4bd6-8a26-249193b14429
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2022-01-15T13:24:25.4001059Z" />
<EventRecordID>333991</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Lee-New-DESKTOP</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>SDUpdate.exe</Data>
<Data>2.8.68.100</Data>
<Data>5ea5e0d1</Data>
<Data>SDUpdate.exe</Data>
<Data>2.8.68.100</Data>
<Data>5ea5e0d1</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>00005c92</Data>
<Data>1a74</Data>
<Data>01d80a1336658ca9</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Spybot - Search &amp; Destroy 2\SDUpdate.exe</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Spybot - Search &amp; Destroy 2\SDUpdate.exe</Data>
<Data>aa2dac4f-ce25-4bd6-8a26-249193b14429</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Is this something that can be fixed? I observed that there were a few posts concerning SDUpdate.exe a few years ago...

Thanks,

Lee