I have found a work-around (not satisfying though):

Start Spybot, select Advanced mode and select 'Actual Names Advsearch'
as to be excluded.

When scanning, it halts at 'ActualNamesAdvSearch' for quite a while,
but does not crash.
It then finishes the scan al the way to the end.

Joop Klijn





On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:22:48 +0100, Joop Klijn
<j.klijnREMOVE@quicknet.nl> wrote:

>I have the very same problem on a W98 machine.
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>It happened after I downloaded the most recent update today.
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>I never had problems with Spybot before.
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>It even gets worse: Upon starting Spybot, the machie now crashes.
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>Joop Klijn
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>On 15 Nov 2003 16:00:39 -0800, shneor@my-deja.com (Shneor Sherman)
>wrote:
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>>I've been using Spybot on two Win2K machines for quite some time. On
>>one of them, for the past couple of months, Spybot has been crashing
>>the machine, which then shuts down, every time it hits 3230/10456. I
>>have the latest update as of Nov. 11. The text for 3230 is "Actual
>>Names.AdvSearch".
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>>Does enyone have a clue how I can clean this up? Also, of course,
>>Spybot never gets to complete the scan.
>>
>>TIA.
>>Shneor Sherman