Spybot Anti-Beacon for Windows 10

Need help, cant undo OneDrive Services and can't login to store

Need help, cant undo OneDrive Services and can't login to store. No matter what I do, reboot, uninstall, etc. I can not get the OneDrive Service to Undo. It just says 1 of 2 blocked currently and has half of the green bar flashing forever. I need to use Windows 10 store and get this to undo. Please help.
 
PepiMK said:
Sounds like another (security) software is "protecting" the hosts file from changes.
We might have to check on blocking these hosts through the Windows Firewall.
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Do you have an ETA on when we can expect a fix to our reported issue? I really want to be "immunized" as soon as possible! Thanks!
 
Hello support??????? I want my operating system back!

jimh9 said:
Need help, cant undo OneDrive Services and can't login to store. No matter what I do, reboot, uninstall, etc. I can not get the OneDrive Service to Undo. It just says 1 of 2 blocked currently and has half of the green bar flashing forever. I need to use Windows 10 store and get this to undo. Please help.
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OK then, how can I uninstall this AND get my windows store working again? Since the UNDO OneDrive Service button doesn't undo it.
 
What antivirus are you running on your system?

MonthOLDpickle said:
When it starts a pop up says something about host file and being locked - then the app goes unresponsive. How do I fix it so I can use it?
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There is a good chance that an anti-virus, specially if it is one of those "suites" or "bundles", is locking/preventing the application from accessing a part of the registry/scheduled task/host file/etc...
Best thing you can do is click on the "Show options" button and look at the items listed for the action, telemetry,etc..., you are having issues with and manually alter it.
 
Need help, cant undo OneDrive Services and can't login to store

Need help, cant undo OneDrive Services and can't login to store. No matter what I do, reboot, uninstall, etc. I can not get the OneDrive Service to Undo. It just says 1 of 2 blocked currently and has half of the green bar flashing forever. I need to use Windows 10 store and get this to undo. Please help.:mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
jimh9 said:
Need help, cant undo OneDrive Services and can't login to store. No matter what I do, reboot, uninstall, etc. I can not get the OneDrive Service to Undo. It just says 1 of 2 blocked currently and has half of the green bar flashing forever. I need to use Windows 10 store and get this to undo. Please help.:mad::mad::mad::mad:
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There is a good chance that an anti-virus, specially if it is one of those "suites" or "bundles", is locking/preventing the application from accessing a part of the registry/scheduled task/host file/etc...
Best thing you can do is click on the "Show options" button and look at the items listed for the action, telemetry,etc..., you are having issues with and manually alter it.

Oh boy, here are a few steps for you to follow...
1. Temporarily disable your anti-virus, anti-malware, etc...
2. Run anti-beacon as an administrator...
3. Let us know what happens next...



Disclaimer time:
I give no warranties or representations concerning the free advice above, and accept no liability in relation to its use.
 
somedudde said:
There is a good chance that an anti-virus, specially if it is one of those "suites" or "bundles", is locking/preventing the application from accessing a part of the registry/scheduled task/host file/etc...
Best thing you can do is click on the "Show options" button and look at the items listed for the action, telemetry,etc..., you are having issues with and manually alter it.

Oh boy, here are a few steps for you to follow...
1. Temporarily disable your anti-virus, anti-malware, etc...
2. Run anti-beacon as an administrator...
3. Let us know what happens next...



Disclaimer time:
I give no warranties or representations concerning the free advice above, and accept no liability in relation to its use.
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OK. I already have tried all that, disabling Avast anti-virus and running as administrator. There is still a few options I can NOT undo.
So I thought to REALLY not have any AV software running, I would reboot into safe mode and try there. Same thing there are a few options with
green bars that simply do nothing when you press UNDO or Undoes half the bar and windows store doesn't work. So then I uninstalled it with IObit uninstaller
using the power scan options that gets rid of any traces in registry. Then I reinstalled it as administrator in safe mode, and
STILL THE EXACT SAME THING. I CAN NOT UNDO 4 OF THE GREEN BARS!
SPECIFICALLY ON OPTIONAL TAB:
OneDrive Service undoes 1 out of 2 only
Office 15 and Office 16 Telemetry Scheduled Tasks will NOT undo at all.

So support. Please tell me how to undo OneDrive Service blocking thru registry edit or release a new version that lets you UNDO THIS! This is a SERIOUS issue, more serious than Windows 10 spying on me!! I need a fix now.
 
jimh9 said:
OK. I already have tried all that, disabling Avast anti-virus and running as administrator. There is still a few options I can NOT undo.
So I thought to REALLY not have any AV software running, I would reboot into safe mode and try there. Same thing there are a few options with
green bars that simply do nothing when you press UNDO or Undoes half the bar and windows store doesn't work. So then I uninstalled it with IObit uninstaller
using the power scan options that gets rid of any traces in registry. Then I reinstalled it as administrator in safe mode, and
STILL THE EXACT SAME THING. I CAN NOT UNDO 4 OF THE GREEN BARS!
SPECIFICALLY ON OPTIONAL TAB:
OneDrive Service undoes 1 out of 2 only
Office 15 and Office 16 Telemetry Scheduled Tasks will NOT undo at all.

So support. Please tell me how to undo OneDrive Service blocking thru registry edit or release a new version that lets you UNDO THIS! This is a SERIOUS issue, more serious than Windows 10 spying on me!! I need a fix now.
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Have you tried doing a Recovery restore point prior to Spybot install? If that doesn't work, wipe your drive and reinstall Windows 10. It's faster doing that than waiting for a response.
 
Stormforge said:
Have you tried doing a Recovery restore point prior to Spybot install? If that doesn't work, wipe your drive and reinstall Windows 10. It's faster doing that than waiting for a response.
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No way in hell I am going to wipe it and reinstall Windows 10, it is a laptop and one of the first things I put on it was Anti-beacon, because it came with Win 10, all my other stuff is win 7. And now I have it with everything installed exactly as I like it, so not redoing everything. There must be a simple regedit SUPPORT CAN PROVIDE and answer/solve this, or update the program already so it UNDOES SETTINGS PROPERLY. Is that really too much to ask from a reputable company like Spybot?
 
Stormforge said:
I also have the same problem that Dude_Virus and agresywny reported...both Telemetry Hosts (under protection tab) and Telemetry Hosts - extensive list (under optional tab) do not keep the protection after you hit the "immunize" and "block" function respectively. I'm currently running Windows 10 with 2016 Kaspersky Total Security for anti-virus and iolo's System Mechanic ver. 15.5.0.61 for PC repair (defrag, remove system clutter, etc) if this helps at all. I have installed the latest version of Spybot Anti-Beacon ver. 1.5.0.35. Thx
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Update:
I uninstalled System Mechanic, as it seems to interfere with Kaspersky anti-virus update (Kaspersky is always asking me to reboot the computer). With SM removed, Kaspersky works fine and so does Spybot. I'm fully immunized and (touch wood) it seems to stay that way. I'll report back in a couple of weeks to confirm immunization and report any issues.
 
Does this run in the background or do I have to open it when needed please?

I have just downloaded and installed this (the installer version) after it was recommended on the Windows 7 Forum. Reading the home page it seems to infer it works with Windows 7 which is what I have (Home Premium).

I downloaded it from here:
https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

I have installed it and immunised but am now confused as I don't see it in my list of Start Ups in CCleaner nor is it in the Task Manager once I have restarted my pc or used the program's Close button.

Am I being dumb ... is it perhaps a program I have to open myself whenever I want to check the immunization or am I going wrong somewhere as I assumed it would be always running in the background
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Any help or advice gratefully received please.
 
'SpybotAntiBeacon-1.5-setup.exe' CRC on download page is wrong? (MD5 and SHA1 right)

I just downloaded 'SpybotAntiBeacon-1.5-setup.exe' from here.

Used HashTab v5.2.0, HashMyFiles v2.18 (and our own internally coded tool) to verify the CRC32. They all list the CRC32 as: E18175D5 , however the above page lists it as: 5D17181E

The MD5 hash of 63C2CF7B61D29D7664BFA55D33EDA510 and the SHA-1 hash of 2F35861CF3D2A69669B89214502D1FC769EE10E2 do match though.

Yes, I know CRC32 is ancient, and even MD5 and SHA1 are old and unsuitable for modern-day hashing :)

How about a GnuPG signature too?
 
Spybot Beacon breaks Sype

Hi All,

I've noticed that the HOSTS lines from Spybot are breaking Skype functionality - particularly multi-user calls.

Here's a thread on the MS discussion forum covering the effect on the hosts file:

https://community.skype.com/t5/Wind...problems-MSNP-Connection-offline/td-p/4124233

One or more of these items appears to be causing the issue:
0.0.0.0 ui.skype.com
0.0.0.0 pricelist.skype.com
0.0.0.0 apps.skype.com
0.0.0.0 m.hotmail.com
0.0.0.0 s.gateway.messenger.live.com

Commenting these lines out and restarting skype seems to fix the issue.

Can the Beacon support team identify which lines need to be reviewed and removed / modified to keep Skype working? Not sure if this is the right place to raise it or not.
 
Anti-Beacon now failing to block Cortana

I have been using anti beacon happily since caving to M$'s pressure to upgrade to Windows 10. While it had been working well up to this point, today I noticed Cortana running in task manager, despite it being shown as 'all blocked' in the SA-B. SearchUI.exe shows being updated on 4/1/16, perhaps a recent update has managed to bypass the block?

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A must have feature in Spybot Anti-Beacon is "Limit Reservable Bandwidth to 0%"

To stop W10 from reserving your bandwidth for itself for whatever purposes whenever it wants to, run gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > QOS Packet Scheduler > Limit Reservable Bandwidth. Enable it and set to 0%. The default is not configured in other words set to 80%. Older windows has it set to 20% by default. Why would MS set it to 80% by default in W10? Everyone missed this i think.
 
maelstrm said:
Hi All,

I've noticed that the HOSTS lines from Spybot are breaking Skype functionality - particularly multi-user calls.

Here's a thread on the MS discussion forum covering the effect on the hosts file:

https://community.skype.com/t5/Wind...problems-MSNP-Connection-offline/td-p/4124233

One or more of these items appears to be causing the issue:
0.0.0.0 ui.skype.com
0.0.0.0 pricelist.skype.com
0.0.0.0 apps.skype.com
0.0.0.0 m.hotmail.com
0.0.0.0 s.gateway.messenger.live.com

Commenting these lines out and restarting skype seems to fix the issue.

Can the Beacon support team identify which lines need to be reviewed and removed / modified to keep Skype working? Not sure if this is the right place to raise it or not.
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Further to this, the Hosts blocks appear to be breaking other Win10 functionality.
* Network Adapter shows "No Internet Connection"
* Win10 Store app has been having issues
* Account Settings components are broken - "Sync Your Settings" and "Family & other users"

I tried a number of different things to try and fix these (different DNS servers, upgrading NIC drivers, changing from DHCP to static IPs, etc). None of them worked, but removing the Spybot Anti-Beacon lines from HOSTS completely fixed all of them.

I'd like to request that the maintenance/dev team (if there is one) review the HOSTS lines and test for unwanted side effects, and fix them. It's a bit worrying how many users appear to have broken Skype clients for example (if you search on the error terms from my previous post).
 
maelstrm said:
Further to this, the Hosts blocks appear to be breaking other Win10 functionality.
* Network Adapter shows "No Internet Connection"
* Win10 Store app has been having issues
* Account Settings components are broken - "Sync Your Settings" and "Family & other users"
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If you want lots of Win10 net functionality, app store, synch, etc. This program might not be for you? As those things are intertwined with "telemetry". At the least, you should probably not use either of the "Telemetry Hosts" settings.
 
Hello support??????? I want my operating system back!

I want to uninstall this and have my Windows 10 store back. The UNDO feature does not work, it just half undoes things or not at all and I can not use the store. So after uninstalling, what do I edit exactly in the registry to get win 10 store back?
 
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