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To: thecow who wrote (30366)	11/13/2002 11:33:47 AM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

A cautionary warning about spybot...looks like a good program so I don't mean to dump on it...a few days back, after mr.mark mentioned it, I downloaded and installed it. The first time that I ran it, it gave me a laundry list of "possible offenders"...I proceeded to let it rip and gave it permission to deep six all the "possible offenders". This lazy man approach on my part was the probable cause of my trouble. What happened?...my email (outlook express) refused to open my in-box...a window would pop up asking if I wanted to open the file with (I forget) some kind of image viewing program...I'd click on no and it would cycle me through the same pop up window a few times before it would let me hit cancel and proceed. After a half day of that goofiness I went into my WinXP system restore and restored a pre-spybot install and things went back to normal. Spybot was the only software that I had installed so I'm assuming that it caused the glitch...along with my careless use of it's cleaning abilities. I still have the spybot exe file and I may reinstall it and give it another shot, only this time I'll be a little more careful about what I'll let it dump.

To: thecow who wrote (30366)	11/15/2002 2:04:22 AM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

i thought i had a SpyBot prob.... <update> my nav manual virus scans have been running fine, uninterrupted, as they should, because i disabled scanning of compressed files. tonight, wanting to get back on the horse that threw me, i switched back to allowing scanning of compressed files, and this time i excluded the SpyBot recovery folder from the scan. the scan ran fine. so then i scanned just the recovery file, feeling reasonably certain that i would encounter the problem with the scan not completing. but i was wrong... the scan completed. i then scanned the whole SpyBot folder.... and the scan ran fine. keep in mind, it has not been my contention that any of these SpyBot files are infected. just that they may have been damaged when compressed and were giving nav2002 fits. at least that is precisely how it looked two days ago. but tonight, well, i'm not too sure what the heck has happened, except that SpyBot appears to have passed the test and my machine is once again humming right along. :) mark