SpywareBlaster 3.3 3/16/2005 update corrupted (fixed for now?)

Good here too. 3457 in the database.

 

My spywareblaster downloads the database but says it's corrupted too !!
I've tried many downloads but the result is the same..
What should i do ?
Where can i get a non corrupted copy of the database from ?
Is it safe for me to browse pages or should i stop browsing until i get a working copy of the database first ??

 

Hi!
It still corrupted　To me at least.
The same problem has happened.
Though it doesn't understand be already useful,
Info provided below:
OS:Win 2k SP4
Anti-virus:Avast 4.6 Home Edition
Firewall:ZoneAlarm 5.5
Anti-spyware:Spybot S&D1.3,Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal1.05
Ad-Blocking:Firefox1.0.1 extension[Adblock5.2.39]
Connection:Optical fiber cable 100M
Other info :Use 'custom Blocking' about 700 items suited Japan.

In the above situation no problems before,happened after upgrade 3.2 to 3.3
Upgrade info:
Downloading 3.3 from Japan.Local time 3/15/2005 16:00 (GMT+09:00)
Use download locations:download.com
The upgrade went by the recommendation(Though doesn't understand be correct)method. Disable all protection,uninstall 3.2 and install 3.3

Though I'll do update manually this time.next update is uneasy for me.

 

Same here... I've been having this problem with all my machines.

PC1 (desktop):
1. Version of Windows: XP Home SP2
2. What anti-virus software you have installed: AVG Free 7.0
3. What firewall you have installed: Kerio Personal 4.2 beta 4
4. What other security programs you have installed (such as other anti-spyware programs): SpywareGuard, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware SE, Bazooka
5. What ad-blocking/filtering programs you have installed, if any: None, I use Firefox & Opera's in-built blockers.
6. Whether you use a proxy or a special Internet connection setup: Not at the moment

PC2 (desktop):
1. Version of Windows: Win 98 SE
2. What anti-virus software you have installed: Avast! Home 4.6
3. What firewall you have installed: Kerio Personal 4.1
4. What other security programs you have installed (such as other anti-spyware programs): SpywareGuard, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware SE, Bazooka
5. What ad-blocking/filtering programs you have installed, if any: None, I use Mozilla's in-built blocker.
6. Whether you use a proxy or a special Internet connection setup: Not at the moment

PC3 (laptop):
1. Version of Windows: Win XP Home SP2
2. What anti-virus software you have installed: Avast! Home 4.6, BitDefender Free v.7
3. What firewall you have installed: Kerio Personal 4.2 beta 4
4. What other security programs you have installed (such as other anti-spyware programs): SpywareGuard, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware SE, Bazooka
5. What ad-blocking/filtering programs you have installed, if any: None, I use Mozilla & Opera's in-built blockers.
6. Whether you use a proxy or a special Internet connection setup: Not at the moment

EDIT - Manual update worked fine.

BS

 

The corrupted file is only half the size of the correct one. The file is either compressed or something, even the downloading screen shows it as half the size.

 

Hi from Russia... I've just updated v3.3 and it having troubles... manual updates works fine! Im using Win2kServersp4 with Panda Antivirus...

 

The problem I have is that when I check for updates I get a message that there is no internet connection. Spwyareblaster ran fine and updated with no problem until I installed new version.


I am running XP PRO

with McAfee enterprise (7.2 when I downloaded and had problem then upgraded to 8.0 since)

Windows Firewall

Epolicy orchestrator 3.1.2

Spybot search and Destroy 1.3

I am on company Inranet and get Internet connection thru network.


I think I had the same problem on my laptop but wont swear to it

 

Hi,

Could a few people with this problem please send me the sbdatabase2.dtb file in your SpywareBlaster folder?

You can send it to bugreports@javacoolsoftware.com

Thanks!

Best regards,

-Javacool

 

OS: Win XP Pro SP2
Anti-Virus: Norton Antivirus 2004
Firewall: Norton Internet Serurity 2004 Firewall
Anti spyware programs: Spybot S&D 1.3, Spyware Guard 2.2
Ad-blocking: Norton Internet Serurity 2004
Connection: Dial-Up (PSTN phone line, 56K modem)

Spyware Blaster 3.2 peformed exceptionally well. Decided to upgrade to 3.3 version. Installation was OK. Decided to activate Autoupdate option. All efforts to get the 16.3.05 updates came to vain (either from autoupdate or from manual update options)due to message: Data base error etc.
Pls help

 

I tried the "Alternative Download Method" and it worked!!
Does anybody know if this download method can be used with AutoUpdate?

 

Hi,

Yes, any changes you make in SpywareBlaster are also applied to AutoUpdate.

Best regards,

-Javacool

 

well then the problem must be that i don't have a file called
sbdatabase2.dtb
only
sbdatabase2.dtb.temp
in my C:\Program Files\SpywareBlaster folder

if that file is supposed to be there, then the latest update deleted it somehow?

i am using windows XP sp2
McAfee enterprise 8
look n stop
process guard
SurfinGuard
Microsoft AntiSpyware
Spybot SD resident

DSL behind a router

 

My update appears normal. I just now installed the new 3.3 Version (after uninstalling the old) and did the update. Database count went from 3449 to 3457. 5-year old Dell XPS t500
1. XP SP2
2. Norton 2004 Antivirus
3. XP Built-in Firewall
4. Ad-Aware SE, Spybot S&D
5. Google Tool Bar
6. High Speed Cable Internet Access

 

i now have that file (updated again)
but the problem is still there
i am sending it to you

 

maybe this observation will help you to solve the problem:

there is the extension for Firefox called Configuration Mania which lets you configure your HTTP traffic: it's possible to send HTTP requests without the header - when I downloaded the update files with default configuration (with the HTTP headers) all the files were OK, when I turned sending headers off the files were corrupted and looked exactly the same as those downloaded with SB update - here you have HTTP request sniffed with Ethereal from SB:

Code:

GET /spywareblaster31/sbdatabase.dtb HTTP/1.1
Cache-Control: no-cache
Accept: */*
User-Agent: SpywareBlaster Updater - 3.3.0
Host: www.spywareblaster.net

and this is the request from Firefox with the header:

Code:

HEAD /spywareblaster31/sbdatabase.dtb HTTP/1.1Host: www.spywareblaster.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl-PL; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: pl,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-2,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

GET /spywareblaster31/sbdatabase.dtb HTTP/1.1
Host: www.spywareblaster.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl-PL; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: pl,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-2,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.searchengines.pl/phpbb203/index.php?act=ST&f=99&t=31369
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

cheerz
thx 4 your work!

 

Hi,

I have 3 PCs:


The first one was updated normally by SpywareBlaster.
1) XP Home SP2
2) Avast4.6 Home 4.6.623
3) none, only XP firewall
4) Spybot - Search & Destroy
5) none
6) no
7)
The updated file is: sbdatabase2.dtb, 67,198 bytes for 3/16/2005 definition
The added file is: sbversion.txt, 584 bytes

The second one couldn't be updated.
1) XP Pro SP2
2) Avast4.6 Pro 4.6.623
3) none, only XP firewall
4) Spybot - Search & Destroy
5) none
6) no
7)
The corrupted updated file was: sbdatabase2.dtb, 34,261 bytes for 3/16/2005 definition!
The added file is: sbversion.txt, 584 bytes

The third one couldn't be updated.
1) XP Home SP2
2) Avast4.6 Pro 4.6.623
3) none, only XP firewall
4) Spybot - Search & Destroy
5) none
6) no
7) same as the second

I fixed the 2nd and 3rd by just replacing sbdatabase2.dtb with the good one.

By the way, the size of sbdatabase2.dtb for 3/10/2005 definition was 64,734 bytes.

Best regards,

Kerim

 

Hi,

I have the same updating problem, but it is solved by downloading and replacing 'sbdatabase2.dtb'. Now I have 3457 items in database (loaded 3/16/05). Is it correct?

Since I have uninstalled and re-installed SW 3.3 a few times before resolving the problem, I found some temp files in SW's folder. Is it correct too? Do I have to delete them?

ckdatabase.dtb
ckdatabase.dtb.temp
rsdatabase.dtb
rsdatabase.dtb.temp
sbdatabase.dtb
sbdatabase.dtb.temp
sbdatabase2.dtb
sbdatabase2.dtb.temp

 

When I try to update it tells me no internet connection could be established - I tried re-installing and still have the same issue.

W2000

avast!

sygate personal

microsoft anti-spyware tools

adaware

connect via aol

 

You can delete the .temp files, but before you do... could you please send the "sbdatabase2.dtb.temp" file to bugreports@javacoolsoftware.com ?

Thanks!

Best regards,

-Javacool

 

Where do you find manual updates? I can't find it anywhere...

 

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=12266




snowbound

 

Same problem as everyone else on updating - corrupted database.
Replaced:
sbdatabase.dtb
sbinfo.dtb
ckdatabase.dtb
rsdatabase.dtb

from another computer running Spywareblaster.
Downloaded the updated sbdatabase2.dtb.
On opening up spywareblaster, all 5 databases are deleted?

 

Hi

Just to let everyone knows my update is fine.

No problem whatsoever.

 

I love Spyware Blaster (and MRU Blaster for that matter). Anyway, I have had NO problems but thought I'd give you my info. to compare:

1- Win98se (with an unofficial service pack)

2- H+BDEV AntiVir Personal Edition

3- Sygate Personal Firewall

4- Spybot S&D
Bazooka (Kephyr)
Stinger (A.V.E.R.T.)
Bug Off (Merijn)
HiJack This (Merijn)
AdAware SE

5- None

6- plain old DSL

7- All of my tools listed under 1,2,3&4 are current version with current updates! (Also all are free version)

Keep up the good work!

 

downloading the file manually didn't work for me. Still get the same file as the one using manual update. However, using alternate method for update works!