[Issue 062] SpyBot 1.5 Fails to Immunize All in Vista

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As Administrator on a Vista machine, I chose to immunize but 695 entries (IE - Software - Plugins, if I remember correctly) were not processed.

Thanks in advance.
 
Hello,

Windows Vista might tell you that you are not being allowed to operate at the administration level of your computer.
You can solve this problem as follows:
Right-click the Spybot - Search & Destroy entry in your start menu,
instead of just left-clicking to start it.
Then, choose Run as administrator from the context menu.
You will find a screenshot of this problem in our FAQ:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/42.html

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
 
Vista does NOT tell me I am not being allowed to operate at the administrative level of my computer. I have full administrative rights. I receive no message from Vista or Spybot.

I uninstalled, reinstalled, ran the immunization function again and this time another group of entries (1000 of them) failed to immunize.

Any other suggestions? Thanks.
 
I did try "Run as administrator" (when running SpyBot and when installing) but SpyBot still will NOT immunize all. This last time I uninstalled (I ran "undo" first) and reinstalled, and ran the immunization function, it enabled protections previously not enabled and did not enable protections previously enabled.

I'm not sure what to do at this point.
 
FYI:
I got all the immunization protection entries enabled by using the "Undo" function to remove all protection and then simply clicking on "Immunize" which enabled every item including the ones that were previously "stuck" as disabled.

I sure hope I don't run into this issue again especially since the "Undo" process takes a long time - it seems to be very slow when removing Firefox protection.
 
I can confirm this issue also happens on Windows XP (SP2).

.DEFAULT (Cookies, Domain, IPs)
S-1-5-18 (Cookies, Domain, IPs)

Both of those under IE (32/64 bit) do not immunize.
 
I can't confirm on XP SP2: On my system all the items immunize if they are selected (checkmark in the box) and do not if they are unchecked.
 
Confirmed!

I can confirm the UNDO option takes a long time (15min) to complete. Also, first immunization fails on XP SP2. Following the steps, UNDO, then IMMUNIZE corrects everything.
 
Hello,

About the long undo:
The undo of the immunization in Spybot - Search & Destroy version 1.5 might be slowly or appears to hang.
But this is normal - it takes quite a bit time to edit the changes.
This has to do with the modular structure the new immunization has.
To show you that the undo is still working or better in progress
we have added a small animation in kind of a wall.
So please be patient. We will try to improve the undo feature. :-)

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
 
Spybot 1.5.1 Vista Admin Rights

Hello, I seem to be having trouble with Immunizing my computer. I get prompted to have Admin Rights before i can immunize. I am the Administrator on the computer and I have also right clicked on the program and used the "Run As Adminstrator" option but still nothing seems to change when I try to immunize, i keep getting the same message. I have reinstalled the product aswell.

Please help!
 
Hello,
To get more information on this issue we would like to gather more details from those users who can recreate this issue.
If you have incomplete Immunization please check these locations within the Windows Registry and export these registry locations.
Please sent them to detections-at-spybot.info (replace -at- with @) and refer to this thread.
Please only export the registry locations which do not get immunized completely.
In these cases we would like to have 3 registry exports, 1 before Immunization, 1 after incomplete and 1 after a "fixed" complete
immunization if that can be done. Please name the files accordingly for instance 32bit_plugins_before.reg, 32bit_plugins_after.reg,
32bit_plugins_fixed.reg. Pleae also provide screenshots.
To open the registry editor click on start - run , enter regedit and confirm this.
Then navigate to the respective locations shown below.

Code: 
Internet Explorer (32 bit)
Software (Plugins) 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\

Internet Explorer (32 bit) on a 64 bit OS
\Software (Cookies)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\P3P\History

\Software (Domains)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains

\Software (IPs)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Ranges

\Software (Plugin)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility


Internet Explorer (32 bit/64 bit)
.Default (Cookies)
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\P3P\History\

.Default (Domains)
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zonemap\Domains

.Default (IPs)
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Ranges\

UserName/Usernumber (Cookies)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\P3P\History

UserName/Usernumber (Domains)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zonemap\Domains

UserName/Usernumber (IPs)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Ranges\
 
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