An Error Occured During Antivirus Updates!

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Ok... I own home edition.

Haven't had any issues until today when I attempted to update.

Get the message "An Error Occured During Antivirus Updates"

What's up with that??????
 
Same Here

:sad: I just paid for a license for the Spybot + Antivirus 2.3 and installed it. Now I get "An Error Occurred During Antivirus Updates," and doing the malware updating yields a "Missing Signatures" notice that will not go away. Like tuckernut, I also cannot run a scan. I am very displeased and would like to find out how to fix this or get my license fee back.
 
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Hello phurry,

A ticket has been submitted for this issue and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Best regards.
 
phurry said:
:sad: I just paid for a license for the Spybot + Antivirus 2.3 and installed it. Now I get "An Error Occurred During Antivirus Updates," and doing the malware updating yields a "Missing Signatures" notice that will not go away. Like tuckernut, I also cannot run a scan. I am very displeased and would like to find out how to fix this or get my license fee back.
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Same here, is there way to bypass, I had go back to free version to my scans. I want to get the automatic Updates and scans
 
Failed to install Spybot Antivirus signatures

I got the following error message in my efforts to update spybot today.

[01:51.319] [-] Failed to install Spybot 2 antivirus signatures!
[01:51.319] [-] Failed to install Spybot 2 antivirus signatures!

This is the first time I have seen this since I purchased professional earlier this year.

I had my laptop looked at last year because I was getting a white screen, they said it was a virus and they cleaned it but apparently where I am going on the web (possibly facebook or an adult social website) may be the cause, but again I am experiencing the white screen but am not finding any viruses in my scans.

Any ideas other than to not participate in facebook or adult social website? I don't hear of anyone else experiencing this kind of issue.
 
Left in the lurch

phurry said:
:sad: I just paid for a license for the Spybot + Antivirus 2.3 and installed it. Now I get "An Error Occurred During Antivirus Updates," and doing the malware updating yields a "Missing Signatures" notice that will not go away. Like tuckernut, I also cannot run a scan. I am very displeased and would like to find out how to fix this or get my license fee back.
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You're not alone. I ran into the same problem an hour after purchasing a licence for the professional version and its a bit thick for a product which claims to be that nifty. What's the good of it if we can't update the anti-virus signature? Spybot needs to put up a solution to this quick so we don't spend more time yammering about this here. I am a very unhappy chap
 
Same problem here with mine. First time I've bought Spybot (I wanted to get the antivirus) and now it won't update. It seems they're working on it, but I hope they get it fixed soon.
 
Same problem with +AV Pro 2.3 - no updates or scans possible - NOT good !

I also upgraded from the +AV Pro 2.2 to 2.3 and immediately was unable to retrieve updates and cannot even scan. I get the same error messages about the antivirus signatures not installing and an error message about missing database files when attempting a scan. The update log is showing no updates needed but the software interface is showing red flag warnings. Manual updates and boot CD haven't helped. Very dangerous situation. May have to go back to earlier version to access updates.
 
Same failure with 2.2 so do not bother going back

I have the same problem with version 2.2 so there is no point in going back to the old version
 
Error when updating antivirus

Glad(?) to see I'm not the only one experiencing this problem. Hope there's a fix soon. *fingers crossed*
 
Thanx

tashi said:
Hello phurry,

A ticket has been submitted for this issue and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Best regards.
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It is good to se that someone listens...I just logged off of Steam and there are a lot of SB-S&D users there using anything from XP 32 to W 8.1 that are having the exact same issue.Most of the ones I talked to are frustrated immensely.
 
Same story here. Spybot + Antivirus 2.3 is giving me error messages with updating the anti-virus updates!
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And I am not able to show the update log file?

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What's going on?
 
Me Too!

I am replying here because this is the exact same error message I am getting!
I also go on Facebook a lot and adult social networking daily.

I bought my license in March 2014 just before 2.3 came out. Today I am going to try updating to the new version of Spybot.


rstarner said:
I got the following error message in my efforts to update spybot today.

[01:51.319] [-] Failed to install Spybot 2 antivirus signatures!
[01:51.319] [-] Failed to install Spybot 2 antivirus signatures!

This is the first time I have seen this since I purchased professional earlier this year.

I had my laptop looked at last year because I was getting a white screen, they said it was a virus and they cleaned it but apparently where I am going on the web (possibly facebook or an adult social website) may be the cause, but again I am experiencing the white screen but am not finding any viruses in my scans.

Any ideas other than to not participate in facebook or adult social website? I don't hear of anyone else experiencing this kind of issue.
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Failed to install Spybot 2 antivirus signatures

Beadbud5000 said:
I am replying here because this is the exact same error message I am getting!
I also go on Facebook a lot and adult social networking daily.

I bought my license in March 2014 just before 2.3 came out. Today I am going to try updating to the new version of Spybot.
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I got this error on my registered Spybot Home Edition recently also - Last few days.

I followed the suggestion of one previous post, booted into safe mode with networking and was able to update.

Windows 7/64bit - never had a problem until a few days ago.

I also ran update again in normal mode after doing this and it also worked?

Will try it again tomorrow.
 
Antivirus signatures fail to update!!!!! Just bought license and most unhappy

phurry said:
:sad: I just paid for a license for the Spybot + Antivirus 2.3 and installed it. Now I get "An Error Occurred During Antivirus Updates," and doing the malware updating yields a "Missing Signatures" notice that will not go away. Like tuckernut, I also cannot run a scan. I am very displeased and would like to find out how to fix this or get my license fee back.
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I also have the same problem with updating my anti malware and anti virus.
A couple of things to note maybe. I am using windows 7, 64 bit!
Secondly I noticed the path to the signatures is at the spybot sit are under \avb\
Plus the files appear to be all 32bit

In spybot it mentions under the update page it states \av
Is there a problem in the script?
I appreciate a quick remedy to this problem or an extension on the license for the duration of the downtime.
I am unable to check anything and I bought the license on 15th May

Need urgent support in this situation
 
Anti-Virus Update Error!

For a couple days now, when I update, I get these messages:

[00:55.120] [-] Failed to install Spybot 2 antivirus signatures!
[00:55.125] [-] Failed to install Spybot 2 antivirus signatures!

Though there are a number of other anti-virus updates installed...

What can be done??
 
Antivirus Update Failure

I am another with this problem.

I am running Windows 8.1 (64-bit) with Spybot+AV 2.3 Home Edition.

I can't do a System Scan, because I am missing some antivirus signatures. An update, however, fails to install these signatures.

I run Spybot with Admin privileges. The antimalware updates complete with no problems, and I can run Immunization.

The files it complains about are:

av\Plugins\7zip.xmd
e_spyw.i00
e_spyw.i49
emalware.000
emalware.594
zoo.xmd

I look in the av\Plugins directory, and I see all of these files present, but with an *.upd" suffix (which most of the files in this directory have).

If I delete these 6 files (viz., their *.upd versions), SpyBot Update will re-download them but then fails. There is no log file I can find that mentions what the failure is.

Since there are a lot of "*.upd" files present, but no files of the same name without the "*.upd", I am assuming these "*.upd" files are in fact (all) used to update another, database(?) file, and it is this update that is failing. Possibility these 6 update files are malformed, aborting the database(?) update, and leaving SpyBot without a complete or consistent set of antivirus signatures to work with.

Like everybody else, this is a very recent occurrence with me: Up until recently SpyBot was running OK.

I look forward to a fix.
 
This is really unfortunate for Spybot - my purchase was more of a donation - I don’t use live protection and didn’t need another layer - I was more curious to their approach behind the paywall competing with the established brands - bought it on May 2nd and it surprised me how it didn’t get in the way with my other two products and didn’t impair computer speed - however on May 3rd it started with “Your Signatures have not been updated in 4 days” - even though it showed that the update had been installed - then the “An error occurred during antivirus update” so I was only able to use it for one day - now the floodgates are opening - an announcement right about now would restore some confidence to end user - might be a good idea to uninstall and wait until issues have been resolved - too bad - I want them to succeed against the big boys.
 
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Me too...

I bought the Home version of Spybot right after I bought the computer 4/8/14. I've used the free version for 10 years and donated a number of times. I have to note that this is the very 1st time I've had any negative issue with Spybot.

I have Win 8.1-64bit. The header on the Start Center says "Spybot - Search & Destroy + AV 2.2; and the "Home Version" link on the Start Center page opens a window which says I have 2.1. I didn't know about 2.3 until I came to the Support page looking for info about this problem. I don't even know how to go about upgrading my 2.1/2.2 to 2.3 without purchasing a new subscription just over a month after buying 2.1.

But to inject a note which has not been mentioned previously in this discussion and perhaps my mention might assist in finding and dealing with the source of the problem...At the upper right corner of the Start Center page, it tells me "Live Protection is on", "Internet Protection is Full", and that "This software is being updated". The last sentence it has been saying since shortly after I logged into Spybot this morning. It initially said that an update was needed, although I can't recall the precise wording of that message. I clicked on the update button at that time and it immediately began the update process. I have gotten the same message as others and have tried to find specifics of what did not install and why. But find no info beyond that message posted by others. I tried several times to re-update with the same repeated result.
 
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