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What's with SpyBot (v 1.4)

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Name: JohnO
Date: October 8, 2005 at 06:42:54 Pacific
OS: XP Home, SP2
CPU/Ram: 3.0, 512
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For over a month now I've been having a problem with SpyBot. It searchs and finds updates, but keeps freezing when I try to d/l them. Eventually I find a mirror that it will d/l from, but then I get "Bad checksum". I have done at least 5 new d/l's and installs from different sites. After each of the uninstalls, I have cleaned it out of the registry, etc.



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Name: Old Salt
Date: October 8, 2005 at 11:26:21 Pacific
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Try downloading one item at a time and use the safenet mirror.


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Name: JohnO
Date: October 8, 2005 at 16:26:59 Pacific
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Old Salt-- Thanks, that worked. However, it's a workaround for a SpyBot problem that's existed for quite a while now; and what that problem does is diminish the program's value: eg: If they can't fix this problem, how does one know SpyBot is really fixing the problems it finds on a scan.


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Response Number 3
Name: angrymen2001
Date: October 8, 2005 at 16:49:31 Pacific
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Just to elaborate (In case someone else sees this post)
I had to exit spybot and re-enter it before I could download the updates 1 at a time. I kept getting check sum errors before I exited and restarted.

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