SpyBot S&D under attack

[YK]

"I really get tired of answering all those mails from people who got screwed
by here4search.com. It seems that here4search.com refers to Spybot-S&D on
their Contact/Removal page as a way to get rid of their hijacker. Some
people do misinterpret this by believing we would be the origin of the
hijacker itself. To those people: we don't want to learn any more English
swearwords - complain to the right person if you want to complain!"

http://spybot.eon.net.au/

Intentional confusion?

[Giel]

SPYBOT RULES!!



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<SPAM>http://nina.xs4all.nl/pac</SPAM>

[Han]

"Giel" <NeverSP@Mthe.net> wrote in news:3fa773d6$0$58707
$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:

> SPYBOT RULES!!
>
>
>
> _________________________________
> <SPAM>http://nina.xs4all.nl/pac</SPAM>
>
>
Giel:

Ik geloof dat je bedoelt
"infested" the internet,
niet "invested" the internet

Groetjes, en bedankt voor de leuke grap op http://nina.xs4all.nl/pac</SPAM
!!

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Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

[Giel]

well im not sure, my dictionary validates both under differend translations,
both are okay.
But i've changed it to infested for your convenience.
anyway, it wasn't the url i ment to spam :-)
<ontopic>http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news</ontopic>
> Giel:
>
> Ik geloof dat je bedoelt
> "infested" the internet,
> niet "invested" the internet
>
> Groetjes, en bedankt voor de leuke grap op http://nina.xs4all.nl/pac</SPAM
> !!
>
> --
> Best regards
> Han
> email address is invalid

[2560]

I'm getting a message ' error retrieving update file info ', what could be
the problem?


"Giel" <NeverSP@Mthe.net> wrote in message
news:3fa79a49$0$58708$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
| well im not sure, my dictionary validates both under differend
translations,
| both are okay.
| But i've changed it to infested for your convenience.
| anyway, it wasn't the url i ment to spam :-)
| <ontopic>http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news</ontopic>
| > Giel:
| >
| > Ik geloof dat je bedoelt
| > "infested" the internet,
| > niet "invested" the internet
| >
| > Groetjes, en bedankt voor de leuke grap op
http://nina.xs4all.nl/pac</SPAM
| > !!
| >
| > --
| > Best regards
| > Han
| > email address is invalid
|
|

[Darkhorse]

"2560" <kimlagoon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:V9Ppb.48$Ca.46@nwrdny02.gnilink.net...
> I'm getting a message ' error retrieving update file info ', what could be
> the problem?
>
>
Try different mirrors, EON (Australia) works fine here.

[Malev]

Malev <malev@selamer.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:00:05 GMT, "2560" <kimlagoon@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm getting a message ' error retrieving update file info ', what could be
>>the problem?
>>
>It's to punish you for top posting

You seem to do a very good job of punishing yourself by reading and
replying to all these top posters, little fairy nerd.

[*Vanguard*]

Did you recently update or install the RealOne Player? If you visit
Spybot's forums, you'll see my post noting the same exact problem. All
except one poster noted that they had updated or installed the RealOne
Player (and the one that says they changed nothing might be the typical
user that claims nothing changed when they know they changed something
or are just unaware of the change).

I have even uninstalled SpyBot, cleaned out the registry (lots of crap
gets left behind, including seven filetype associations, so Spybot has a
"dirty" uninstall) and remnant directories and files, and then did a
fresh install which was after the RealOne Player update. Didn't help.
Spybot is apparently far too sensitive to some registry setup which
aren't even its own registry entries. I suppose the Real might sliding
in a new spyware or other payload that disables Spybot but then Ad-Aware
continues to work okay. If the covert payload were to kill Spybot then
you'd think they'd hit the other anti-spyware products, too.

Somewhere the RealOne Player update/install stepped on something that
Spybot uses and which is not removed on an uninstall and/or stepped back
on by its install. Nothing is running that is for the RealOne Player so
it's not that it is stealing or overwriting something that the SpyBot
install might setup. So until the author figures out how to fix the
screwup, it seems Spybot becomes permanently disabled by a RealOne
Player update/install. So I uninstalled Spybot again, did all the
cleanup again after its dirty uninstall, and have to rely on Ad-Aware
until Spybot gets fixed. I could revert to a prior disk image except
that I just made a huge number of updates for lots of software and
RealOne Player was one of them. I don't want to go through all the
updates again and usually Ad-Aware and Spybot are equivalent in what
they detect.



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