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Spybot S&D problems
PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:37 pm
by Slater
I'm trying to update SS&D, but every time the program tries to download the updates, it gets a "bad checksum" error. So, I updated to the latest version of the program but I still am unable to download the latest spyware definitions/immunizations. Any hints on how to fix this?
PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:19 pm
by Arnobius
I always got that problem too... it also had a bad habit of crashing my system, so I quit trying to install it. I'd be curious to see if it's incompatible with SP2.
Anyone out there with SP 2 able to get it to work right?
PostPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 5:42 am
by Sync
try getting the updated files from the
website and installing those instead of using the internal updater, the 9-23 one simply froze up and had no packets transferring on both of my computers.
PostPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:22 am
by Mithrandir
Hmm. If the checksums don't match, then either the program has the wrong checksum, or something's modifying the files. Have you ran any virus-checking software recently?
PostPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:45 am
by Slater
yes, I have run Bazooka, Norton, and Ad Aware within the past 24 hours. Cleared out all the bad stuff. Still checksum errors. I doubt it's the program since I got the latest version now. But with the new version of the program came a new version of Tea-timer, which seems much less useful than the previous one...
Edit: Ok, nevermind. The whole problem was that the servers for S&D were too overloaded and for some reason "bad checksum" means "timed out"