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Old April 18th 10, 08:59 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
HRH The Example John Smith
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Spybot S&D is useful for the potentially-preventative Immunize feature, but
as for removing serious threats it is not very good. I too stopped using it
on WinMe a long time ago because it took so too run - though as this is in a
Virtual PC .vhd it may have a specific incompatibility with that rather than
WinMe per se.

SpywareBlaster does not scan or fix but is a very good prophylactic.

Both MalwareBytes and SuperAntiSpyware do a better job than Spybot S&D at
removing serious threats.

Given the problem with Spybot you're posting about, I suggest you give up on
it. None of them are needed with a modicum of good sense surfing the net and
installing stuff anyway rather than the blind panic that seems to be what
motivates the typical anti-malware advice poster here.

However, with an officially supported Windows version I would still say,
yes, use MalwareBytes and SuperAntiSpyware for the occasional scan, because
you can. But neither run on any 9x version.

Also there is A-Squared (being renamed Emisoft AntiMalware - or something
along those lines) but it won't run on 9x either - and does not seem 100%
Windows 7 compatible, for what that is worth.

You could run the portable version of SuperAntiSpyware from a USB thumb
drive, but one would ideally want USB 2.0 as well as a high speed drive. And
the portable version does not autorun (of course) nor does it update (you
have to download a fresh copy which includes the latest definitions:
http://www.superantispyware.com/portablescanner.html).

Shane



"SGB" wrote in message
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P.S. Did system restore as well.

"SGB" wrote in message
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Hopefully you folks have an answer
Spybot starts daily at 1:00am
Recently, still running 8-9 hours later
Click 'Stop Check'
Reads - "Thread Error: The parameter is incorrect (87)"
I uninstalled and reinstalled it deleting any leftover registry keys
Ran task
Stopped task about 10 minutes later
Reads - "Thread Error: The parameter is incorrect (87)
Could not find a good answer doing a Google search

New problem only the last few days

What to do... any ideas?

TIA!
SGB