[devagral]

My O/S is windows XP home and I have Spybot search & Destroy on my machine.On 5th sept'08 I updated this programe and since then my excel files (.xls) have stopped responding.

Pl. suggest solution for my problem. Thanks

[speed_hog]

devagral try uninstalling spybot first.
Reboot and see if the problem persists OK

[devagral]

Thanks, speed_hog.Do you mean that I should uninstall it and then reinstall it by downloading it again?For the time being, I have restored back to a point prior to updation and Excel files started responding.Then I again updated spybot search and destroy and again Exel files stopped responding and I had to restore back again.So surely spybot is the culprit.

[speed_hog]

Thanks for doing that test and letting everyone know about the problem.
I use spybot and don't have excel installed so I don't have your problem.
***blues_harp28 is a friend and very good at tech support also a
distinguished member with 7,710 posts.
and he highly recommends Superantispyware,
you can get it here;
http://www.superantispyware.com/
So I would give it a try

[1SillyBilly]

What is your version of Excel? I use 2000 and have no problem with an interaction with Spybot.