Spybot - updating message: "FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum"
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Spybot - updating message: "FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum"
I was updating Spybot and received the following log - there appears to be a problem related to "checksum."
Any ideas on solving this?
12/1/2006 8:09:52 AM Downloaded update info file. (http://security.kolla.de/updates/spybotsd.ini)
12/1/2006 8:25:14 AM downloaded update Detection rules: Dialers
12/1/2006 8:25:14 AM - URL: http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pu...des.dialer.zip
12/1/2006 8:25:14 AM - Local file: C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates\includes.dialer.zip
12/1/2006 8:25:14 AM - FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum
12/1/2006 8:33:46 AM downloaded update Detection rules: Hijackers
12/1/2006 8:33:46 AM - URL: http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pu....hijackers.zip
12/1/2006 8:33:46 AM - Local file: C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates\includes.hijackers.zip
12/1/2006 8:33:46 AM - FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum
12/1/2006 8:34:33 AM downloaded update Detection rules: Keyloggers
12/1/2006 8:34:33 AM - URL: http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pu...keyloggers.zip
12/1/2006 8:34:33 AM - Local file: C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates\includes.keyloggers.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:28 AM downloaded update Detection rules: Malware
12/1/2006 8:38:28 AM - URL: http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pu...es.malware.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:28 AM - Local file: C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates\includes.malware.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:28 AM - FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum
12/1/2006 8:38:30 AM downloaded update Detection rules: PUPS
12/1/2006 8:38:30 AM - URL: http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pu...ludes.pups.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:30 AM - Local file: C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates\includes.pups.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:30 AM - FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum
12/1/2006 8:38:31 AM downloaded update Detection rules: Security
12/1/2006 8:38:31 AM - URL: http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pu...s.security.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:31 AM - Local file: C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates\includes.security.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:31 AM - FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum
12/1/2006 8:38:33 AM downloaded update Detection rules: Spybots
12/1/2006 8:38:33 AM - URL: http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pu...es.spybots.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:33 AM - Local file: C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates\includes.spybots.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:33 AM - FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum
12/1/2006 8:38:35 AM downloaded update Detection rules: Trojans
12/1/2006 8:38:35 AM - URL: http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pu...es.trojans.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:35 AM - Local file: C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates\includes.trojans.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:35 AM - FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum
12/1/2006 8:38:36 AM downloaded update Detection rules: Update
12/1/2006 8:38:36 AM - URL: http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pu...t/includes.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:36 AM - Local file: C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates\includes.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:36 AM - FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum
12/1/2006 8:38:38 AM downloaded update Immunization database
12/1/2006 8:38:38 AM - URL: http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pub/spybot/clsid.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:38 AM - Local file: C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates\clsid.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:38 AM - FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum
12/1/2006 8:38:40 AM downloaded update Immunize fix
12/1/2006 8:38:40 AM - URL: http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pub/spybot/immfix.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:40 AM - Local file: C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Updates\immfix.zip
12/1/2006 8:38:40 AM - FILE REJECTED because of bad checksum
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This is a fairly common problem - especially on Fridays when most updates are generally known and expected to be posted. Accordingly, excessive initial traffic is to be expected and downloads may end up incomplete as detected by checksum calculation.
Try several alternate download sites until you get one that WORKS or try later.