Spybot errors (XP Prof SP2)

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Hi. When trying to update Spybot, for the first time ever, some of the elements failed and showed as being in error. Please see attachment and advise as to what may be the cause and how to rectify it. Many thanks S Fox

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Have a look here:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/20.html%5B/url%5D

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When you click Update, you should get a list of mirrors (servers) from which you can download the updates. Try selecting a different one than the default choice. I usually use Safer Networking #1, it has the fewest problems in my experience.

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Thank you very much gentlemen, just on my way out so will follow your advice ASAP. Just thought I would reply immediately in case I forget….. hate the thought of not responding with a thank you for the great , precise & often instant assistance you all give to fumblers like me. Regards S Fox

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As Hans says, select a different mirror from the list. That always works for me when I occasionally get a back checksum error.
Regards,
Keith

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Thanks all for your help, most appreciated. Followed the advice and the download went without a hitch.
ps I notice no-one has responded to my post # 716720, I sure would like to know if the pictures can be unblocked
using a keyboard short cut. Regards….. S Fox.

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“I notice no-one has responded to my post # 716720, I sure would like to know if the pictures can be unblocked
using a keyboard short cut.”

Is this a BIG problem? I’m not sure which email program you are referring to, but in any case, this is a ONE TIME setting. Once you allow pictures, pictures are allowed forever until you block them again. For a single setting, this hardly seems worth the effort to determine whether it can be done via a few mouse clicks or a few keyboard strokes (or am I totally misunderstanding your question???).

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I know of NO way to get access to the type of bar other than by mouse. It is the same one when activeX is wanted and a few others.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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Ok Friends, this is of course not a big deal but I simply [as mentioned before in some of my posts] am on a mission to minimize the use of the mouse. It’s just that I get quite a lot of email newsletters etc. which have the pictures blocked this way & wondered if they could be opened without clicking the bar with the mouse. What has always puzzled me somewhat is how the sender of such an email can identify the recipient computer if the pictures are not blocked. Regards anyway guys. SF

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The blocking is being done on YOUR computer NOT the senders.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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Hello DaveA. Yes I am aware that it is MY computer that is blocking the pictures but (as I said) the gist of the message is that the pictures have been blocked to prevent the sender from identifying my computer, that is what puzzles me, how can my computer [if allowing such pictures through] allow the sender to identify my computer?
I appreciate it is not an issue that warrants a lengthy thread but the main question remains the first one asked & I am sorry for introducing a different question to the original post. Thanks again Guys, I find this site so convenient when groping around in the fog. S Fox.

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I thought the issue was that the pictures are not in the email, and the email has to “phone home” to get the pictures. (Which is why you sometimes get an email with pictures that won’t display because the sender’s site is down.) A number of sites explain why blocking images can be a good idea, for instance http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpresstips/qt/et112204.htm%5B/url%5D .

Ian

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As Ian Wilson explained, the issue is pictures that are not included in the e-mail itself, but that are merely links to pictures on the sender’s server. If you tell Outlook Express to display such pictures, it will contact the server to download the pictures, thereby confirming your existence and revealing your IP address. This is not a problem with legitimate newsletters, of course, but spammers use this method too. That’s why Outlook Express blocks linked pictures, and why it wouldn’t be a good idea to unblock them totally, although that is possible (see Images are blocked when you open an e-mail message in Outlook Express on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer).

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One might argue that whether you retrieve the images or not means little to most spammers. It must be cheaper to send hundreds of extra messages to nonexistent addresses than to make even one manual list update.

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Thanks to one and all for your most helpful explanations. The entire matter now makes sense when I learn that the actual pictures are NOT with the email, sorry being unaware of that fact, it also explains why when I occasionally forward such emails to friends, they sometimes reply to say there were no pictures with them. Cheers guys for yet again enabling me to tick another box on the learning curve scale. Kind regards S Fox.

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