Getting Rid of Fake Error Messages The Interfere With my SpyBot (DelZip179.dll)

Question

I discovered that my grandson downloaded that beast Bear Share again. I always uninstall it then run my Adaware, Spybot and AVG. But S&D can't delete the 29 items from bearshare something is making it 'hang' in the clean process giving me an error message, 'Failed to load DelZip179.dll' I Googled this .dll and found nothing. It must be fairly new or really very old. Can anyone help???

ky331 · Answer

first, check to make sure you have that file... it should be located as:

C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\DelZip179.dll

if the file is missing, you can try re-installing spybot.

if the file is there, but your error message continues, see if you can boot in safe mode and run spybot successfully.

Bugbatter · Answer

You may have an infection that has disabled Spybot. You are living dangerously by allowing someone to use file sharing on your computer. 70% of the infected computers that we see have been doing filesharing -- and ALL of them are running some type of anti-virus and anti-spyware.

P2P can install malware because it opens the door for any number of worms, adware, and spyware infections when you use their network. The courts have decided that current P2P networks are primarily used to trade pirated software and media.
It is good that you remove it, but one of these days it may be too late once your computer becomes infected.

For example, this P2P user finally managed to pull his computer back from the edge:
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=218013&messageID=2320320

Stroll over to our HijackThis Board and take a look at how many of those people with infected computers have had to remove P2P. Here are a couple of recent ones:

http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=si_hijack&thread.id=73831&page=1

http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=si_hijack&thread.id=73031&page=1

The next time your grandson wants to install ANY P2P, aside from the fact that he may be downloading copyrighted material illegally, ask him if he will have the time to go through all that disinfection if there are problems. If he leaves it for you to fix, you know where to find us, but you'll have to get in line with the rest of the P2P users.

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