Tony Meyer: > This is obviously a bug in Spybot. We are not able to do anything > about this; you should contact Spybot informing them of the problem.
> =Tony.Meyer I thought that was probably the case - no references from Google or sourceforge about these symptoms, and I'm unlikely to be the first to discover it :-) I thought it might be wise to check first. Allen: > Actually it might be more specific than that. I have installed both > Spybot and SpamBayes on XP machines of various levels of patch, for the > most part without problems. > I suspect there is a registry issue involved in this as the only time I > ever had a problem was when I failed to clean and defrag the registry > before installing. JV16's free Registry Cleaner can be found on the net. > It is an older version, 4.43 I believe, but does the cleaning trick > quite well. I've been using Fixit tools for the defrag for years but I'm > sure there are other ways to accomplish this. > After I did both, installation went just fine. > BTW, I always put Spybot on a Windoze machine as the very first step to > cleaning it up. > Allen Yep - AVG, Zonealarm, Spybot and Adaware for all my customers. Unless they insist on keeping Norton... I'll follow your advice about the registry and try again. Tim Stone: > Did you download the version of Spambayes that you were installing from > spambayes.sourceforge.net? If not, please do so and try again. I > suspect that the version you got had been corrupted. Yes, that's where I got the copy for the second attempt. Thanks for your quick reponses and help regards Bernie Dwyer ********************* -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.0/269 - Release Date: 24/02/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.0/269 - Release Date: 24/02/2006 _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
