Re: EZ Armor question

From: megagoo (megagoo_at_i-55.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: 31 May 2004 01:40:22 -0700

i don't know if this has been answered already but i think that the
solution may lie in your HOSTS file.

Windows 95/98/Me c:\windows\hosts
Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Windows XP Home c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

(you may need administrator access for Windows NT/2000/XP)

open the hosts file with notepad or wordpad. you may have a lot of
entries there and some may have like www.noadaware.com or
no-spybot.com .. i believe this is spyware taking over your computer
making sure you dont get any updates. delete those enteries. in fact
delete everything EXCEPT

127.0.0.1 localhost

i have adsubtract so i also have:
127.0.0.1 AdSubtract # Added by AdSubtract for auto-dial.
127.0.0.1 ie3.proxy.aol.com # Added by AdSubtract for AOL support.

but take the other stuff out. save the file, reboot possibly.

try to update.

another thing i found that was annoying but i dont believe had
anything to do with spybot is internet explorer setting a proxy on its
own. ive had problems with my dad's computer and going to
tools/internet settings/connection/LAN Settings and unchecking the
proxy option fixed a lot of stuff that was happing. like programs not
connecting, or losing internet every few hours. .. it kept
rechecking itself but i found out its because ad-subtract was
configured to use a proxy. so internet explorer options proxy setting
will turn itself on if anything is set to use a proxy. if you still
have problems, turn that off and find any program you had running and
make sure its not trying to use a proxy

eddie

On Monday, May 19, 2003 at 3:16 pm, Manuel wrote:
>I've read with interest some recent messages regarding spybot and
problems with updates.
>I've tried reinstalling spybot 1.2 and, whenever I choose the search
for updates
>option, I am still getting this "error retrieving update info file!"
message despite
>reinstalling. I've tried both easy and advanced mode. Is anyone else
having the same
>problem, and can anyone help at all?

"mick" <coughcough@totlise.co.uk> wrote in message news:<phmpc.17$up6.0@newsfe6-win>...
> Jason Wade wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 May 2004 17:46:55 -0500, mick wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Talking of Spybot, whenever I try to `Search for Update` I get an `Error
> >> retrieving update info file` message. It might be the fact that, in the
> >> Update section it says I have No Mirror Selected. Problem is there isn`t
> >> any for me to select from. Any Ideas?
> >
> > I was able to update spybot s&d a couple of times. For me, the default
> > server was UNI-xxx (Europe). I suspect that the server is busy a lot, or
> > maybe you have a trojanized "hosts" file :)
>
> That`s the problem, there is no server selected or selectable. There are no
> selections available. When I press the Mirror button in the Update section
> nothing happens.
>
> How many hosts files should there be? I have `Hosts` and Lmhosts` in my
> System dir and `Hosts.sbs.sig` and `Hosts.sbs` in my Spy bot dir. `Hosts`
> only has localhost in there whilst `Lmhosts` has everything rem`d out.
>
> > Try it several times a day. It should work at least once.
>
> Well I uninstalled the program last week and downloaded and reinstalled a
> new copy but it`s still the same.
>
> > If people like me gave them a little more money, maybe they could afford
> > to have more servers?
>
> :-)
>
> mick