Spybot Search and Destroy

[intrigued]

I just downloaded this, tried to run my first scan and it locked up about half way through the scan. I've tried 3 more times, and it locks up in the same place each time. (Running bot check 2957/5835: C2 lop) I don't know why, or what to do. Any ideas?

Thank you!

 

[ReadyOne]

Did you fetch the defination updates?

If so, then there is a forum I can repost your question on and see if anyone else had encountered this. So far as I know, there has been almost 0 problems with Spy-bot.

 

[woody54]

I just downloaded this, tried to run my first scan and it locked up about half way through the scan. I've tried 3 more times, and it locks up in the same place each time. (Running bot check 2957/5835: C2 lop) I don't know why, or what to do. Any ideas?

Thank you!

Make sure you have given it a reasonable time to complete its deliberations, sometimes it does seem to stop but will continue in due course. Never had a problem with it myself.

 

[Jenny _S]

I used SpyBot Search and Destroy for a while. The I downloaded AdAware. I ran SpyBot got nothing. Then ran AdAware and it found 17. I don't use SpyBot anymore.

Woody is correct. Both SpyBot and AdAware tend to appear stopped for a while as they "deep search" some directory, then start up again after some time.

 

[Weird Harold]

I just downloaded this, tried to run my first scan and it locked up about half way through the scan. I've tried 3 more times, and it locks up in the same place each time. (Running bot check 2957/5835: C2 lop) I don't know why, or what to do. Any ideas?

Thank you!

As others have mentioned, Spybot sometimes seems to stall as it checks something. I've had Spybot stall for as much as five minutes when it finds something new.

Another possibility is that spybot is checking something that resides on a corrupt area on your drive. Try running Scandisk and defrag before you try spybot again.

I run both spybot and ad-aware and both run better on a defragged hard-drive because they check so many different things.

 

[ArtifexLignorum]

C2 lop

The same thing occurs here.

Spybot runs just fine, and then when it is searching for the C2 Lop nasties it never gets past that spot. I have given it way lots of time (read hours) for that step to complete.

What i have done to work around that is to place a checkbox in the two C2 Lop exclude entries. (These can be seen and checked in the "excludes" category.) And that allows it to skip the C2 Lop search and run to completion.

I dont know what is misfiring there. Nor how to fix it.


good luck.

 

[ReadyOne]

From the Spy-Bot support forum ...

Here are a couple things you can try to resolve the Spybot C2Lop "hang".

First, do make sure that you have installed all available updates from within the program. Then proceed with the steps as follows:

1 - Is it really "hung" ? Give it time. Some users have reported that it's just slow at scanning that specific spot.

2 - Clear out Temp and Internet Temp folders.

3 - Upgrade of reinstall IE, a shared dll file that got corrupted might be the cause of this.

4 - Move out of "My Documents" all .exe files you may have in there to another folder.

5 - Exclude both C2Lop items from further scans. Note - This is temporary and should only be used if all other means fail.
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For item 3, try upgrading to IE 6.1, and if you already have that installed the go look at this article Repair or Reinstall IE6 and OE6

 

[ReadyOne]

BTW, try item 4 before 3 & 5. It's lots easier.

Another user solved the problem by turning off the AntiVirus background checking for the furation of the Syp-Bot run.

The Spy-BOt developer is aware of the problem and working on it. It will happen with a couple of different versions of the update files. I would check back for updates every couple of days. If a fix is announce in the Spy-bot newletter, I'll post here again.

 

[intrigued]

Wow! Thank you very much, this is wonderful information!

I can't scan or defrag. Like with the spybot situation, it locks up during the scan and I have to shut down the computer to get out of it. (With both scan and degrag, it will only run a few minutes and then locks up) This hard drive is only a few months old, the hard drive I had before kept having the same problems I'm having with this hard drive. That leads me to believe the computer is doing something to the hard drive, that it isn't the hard drive itself.

With spybot, it locks up. When I do control/alt/delete to close it out, a box pops up and says the program isn't responding. I guess I have to resolve the other problems before I can go any further with spybot, but I don't know how to do so.

Thanks very much!

 

[ReadyOne]

When you got the new hard disk, did you "clone" your old hard disk onto it?

If so, you may have copied a software problem. So, it maynot be the drive itself.

If it was the hard drive iteslf, then I'd use Spinrite or Norton Disk Doctor.

If it's software then I'd go digging, no magic bullet.

In iether case, I'd start by letting Spinrite scan the disk just to see that it can be totally read. Norton and Scandisk will try and figure out the firs system first, while Spinrite skips the file system lookover. (Spinrite wonlt work for NTFS though.)

Scandisk will NOT try and recover any data from bad sectors. The other utilites will. I don't run scandisk to scan the sectors on the drive in fix mode.

 

[Sphinx220]

Just a quick question...

Hi everyone...is it really worth running either of those two programs...I am always reluctant to put anything like that on my system...especially when it's running nicely...happens so rarely..I don't want to screw it up...lol

Thanks in advance...Sphinx

 

[ReadyOne]

Do you run an AntiVirus?

Spyware Blaster Spyware Blaster is like AV, only for Adware and Spyware. A subset is also present in Spybot Search and Destroy under the "Immunize" option.

Do you ever scan you system with your AV program to see if you are infected? Did you ever catch a virus, and need to clean it up?

Spybot Search and Destroy does the same thing for Adware & Spyware.

How bad can Adware/Spyware be?

• Your browser goes somewhere you didn't sent it.
• Popup windows with ads appear too often.
• You system run slow, very slow.
• Your machine starts dialing overseas numbers and you phone bill goes through the roof.

 

[lena]

I use both. Some things aren't caught by Spybot but detected by Adaware. And vice versa. And make sure you have the latest updates .. there's always new 'bad stuff' out there every day. Also be sure to run an AV program - free one is AVG Anti-Virus (which i use) or Panda AntiVirus (which i don't use so can't say) .. since Norton keeps on charging the 'subscription' every few months. Another important thing is a firewall as well, esp. if your connection is always on i.e. broadband and such. A free firewall is ZoneAlarm, but there are other options out there as well. It's not related to the question, but just thought I'd add my input on security issues

 

[ArtifexLignorum]

Dab on Lena !

You stated the case splendidly.

Thanks for the reference ReadyOne. That may help a bunch.