Bad checksum on download of updates to spybot

news.rcn.com wrote:
> Does anyone know what "Bad checksum" on downloading of updates to
> spybot means?

The site is very buzy.

Try a different download site.

> I pressed on a link in a spoof email QUESTION FROM EBAY MEMBER which
> did nothing
>
> Which tends to mean that it very definitely did SOMETHING in the
> background, otherwise they wouldn't have sent the email and now
> spybot doesn't download updates. Is this a recognised trojan yet?
>
> (Updated NAV found nothing when I did this or generally when the
> email came in)

In article <7rWUe.6347$zw1.124@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>,
shanebeatson.TakeThisOut@gmail.com says...

> Personally I'm getting fed up with Spybot updating
> and immunizing issues in recent months

Likewise, and I now prefer to use the online scanner at Trend Micro.

Well I wasnt THAT worried as it didnt take me to a site where I had to enter
my personal ID details but I still thought that it MIGHT be some trojan
which is suddenly active but known.

(Apparently not)

What is it supposed to do then if it isnt trying to harvest information or I
suppose that is what Spybot has silently blocked?

Anyway thanks guys, Spybot has now downloaded from a different site and I
dont appear to have anything (except for obvioously informing me whenever it
does a scan that I have a hardware firewall and dont need to have XP
continuously nag me to turn the firewall and antivirus on)

In article <lo29i1h8d3nukisak26ttee98gog4pdgui DeleteThis @4ax.com>, null DeleteThis @zilch.com
says...
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 13:38:11 GMT, "Shane" <shanebeatson DeleteThis @gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Personally I'm getting fed
> >up with Spybot updating and immunizing issues in recent months.
>
> Why are you interested in Spybot's immunize, may I ask? I see no
> point in it for alternate browser users who have the alternate
> browser set as the system default.

'cos sometimes, albeit rarely these days, there is a need to view a site
in IE.

I view different sites in IE simply because I am an amateur web
developer who needs to view different sites in different browsers for a
variety of different reasons.

Subsequently, despite the fact I have in place an armoury of protection,
and can fight my own corner 'cos in the main I know what i'm doing,
those extra layers make me feel a whole lot more secure.

news.rcn.com wrote:
> Well I wasnt THAT worried as it didnt take me to a site where I had
> to enter my personal ID details but I still thought that it MIGHT be
> some trojan which is suddenly active but known.

Not sure I follow degrees of worry one might have a trojan. If one suspects
it, one ought to prove it one way or the other.

Shane

It is just a worry about what these guys are doing sending these pieces of
mail which dont seem to do anything or advertise anything


When I press on a button and nothing happens, I start worrying but it may
just be some element of paranoia.