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Uninstalling Spybot S & D

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by jardinier

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I wish to uninstall Spybot S & D so that I can download a newer version.

My current version will not install updates and gives the message: "Bad checksum" for each update.

In Add/Remove Programs I am advised that if I uninstall S & D all the backed-up files will also be deleted.

What should I do?

I also have Ad-Aware and Xoftspy installed.

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by toivo talikka

Is your Spybot version 1.4 or an earlier one? You should just be able to install the downloaded version on the top of the old one.

You can also download from http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download the latest Detection Updates (2007-01-19) as a single executable file which you can run, rather than rely on the download servers for the same. Sometimes those servers are slower and come up with checksum errors.

When the Spybot uninstallation refers to backed-up files, it does not mean the datafiles you stored on the hard drive but its own definitions and scan reports and things.

by jardinier

I uninstalled 1.3 and downloaded and installed 1.4 which appears to be the latest version. However it did quite a large update while I was online.

Thanks. Over and out.

by jardinier

because there is a happy ending.

Version 1.4 successfully downloaded and installed the updates, and a scan of the sytem found and cleaned 86 problems.

I guess this little story supports the idea of having more than one anti-spyware application as it is only a week ago that the latest update of Xoftspy cleaned all the infestations it found.

Thank you Toivo. Please accept another thumbs up. :)

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