Spybot is not an anti-virus application. Do you NOT have an (one)
anti-virus application running in the background at all times?

Spybot's two Residents provide only minimal protection, but one of them may
be blocking the ActiveX file from installing. Since you're so familiar with
this stuff, I don't need to tell you anything more, I'm sure.

Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...r/default.mspx

Steps To Help Prevent Spyware
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/com...e/prevent.mspx

Steps to Help Prevent Computer Worms
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/com...s/prevent.mspx

Neil Gould wrote:
PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
You didn't answer my question.

Typically, I use Spybot when on-line. However, to check the system after
the
first failure, I used a number of anti-virus applications that I keep
on-hand and up-to-date. None reported any problems, and all subsequent
attempts to install ActiveX were done off-line with no active anti-virus
software.

Hope that helps.

Neil


Neil Gould wrote:
Hi,

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
And you anti-virus application is...?

Of course, I did thoroughly check my system for viruses after the
"update" first failed about a week ago. The system is clean.

Also, I have several versions of Flash & ActiveX off-line
installers, and they now all fail with the same error (an OSX file
fails to register, the actual file depends on the version), even
when anti-virus is disabled. I was
able to install them as needed before without problems.

Neil