Solved the immunization issue in xp3 with firefox 25
There was a post in the faq at the Spybot main page that said the following (shown here in bold/italic) that was supposed to be a fix for the immunization issue in which Spybot only immunizes one of the users in Firefox. I have solved the problem and I found that the information from the faq is not correct. It is the opposite of what needs to happen. Here is the initial info from the faq that I tried:
WRONG:
"There is a trick though how you can enforce it to be identified as a Firefox 2 profile. Go to C:\Documents and Users\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\something.default, which is your profile folder (path might be slightly different depending on the OS).
If there is no file named hostperm.1 but one named permissions.sqlite with a filesize of 0 bytes, rename the latter hostperm.1.
If both files exist, delete the file permissions.sqlite.
If only pemissions.sqlite exists and is larger than 0 bytes, delete it and create an empty file named hostperm.1 "
You can do a search with those exact words and find it in the faq solutions. The information above is the opposite of what needs to be done. Here is how to fix the immunization issue:
THIS WORKED FOR ME:
From your administrator account, go into C:\Documents and Users\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\something.default. Find the files that are mentioned. In my administrator account, I had the permissions.sqlite with 1.4 mbs. I do think this may be the active host file, but I could be mistaken. Prior to the fix, the admiinstrator account immunized normally, but the user file did not. So, I followed the directions from the faq and neither my administrator nor user accounts were immunized in Firefox 25. So, I put the permissions.sqlite file that I had deleted and restored it from the recycle bin and replaced the -0- byte file that the above faq said to create. Then, I made a copy of the large permissions.sqlite file and copied it into the profile folder where the zero byte file resided for my user account.
Once the 1.4 mb permissions.squlite file resided in BOTH the administrator and user accounts, Spybot immunized Firefox 25 normally again. So, as I said, the directions in the faq are the exact opposite of what needs to happen. All users should have the large permissions.sqlite file residing in the profile folder and your problem is solved. If you need to create a hostperm.1 file in either account, you just name a notepad file with that name, ignoring the instructions to avoid changing the ending. hostperm.1 is the correct filename.
