I'm running Windows XP, and installed MS AntiSpyware last
night. I have been running the initial scan for 16 hours
now, and it is still not finished. How long should this
usually take? Is there anything I can do to not have to
keep it running? It seems to freeze up when the screen
saver comes on, too, so I simply turned that off.
Still... this doesn't seem right.

Depends on the size of your HDD and the number of files,
size of registry etc. but 16 hrs is a bit extreme. Try
using another scanner like AdAware or Spybot and see if
they also take a long time. It takes about 10 minutes on
my system with about 15 GB of stuff. TTFN.

16 hours is way too long even for full scan. There should
be a number that tells you how many files AV has scanned.
look if it increases.

just for comparison, it took me 10 minutes to full scan a
12gig drive on a Athlon 2500+ w/1024MB ram and 15 minutes
on a P3 700Mhz lappy with 8 gig hdd

>-----Original Message-----
>Depends on the size of your HDD and the number of files,
>size of registry etc. but 16 hrs is a bit extreme. Try
>using another scanner like AdAware or Spybot and see if
>they also take a long time. It takes about 10 minutes on
>my system with about 15 GB of stuff. TTFN.
>.
>

It seems to get hung up on registry keys. It's been
running for an hour or so now (after running Adware, which
only took a few minutes). It's at 60,000 registry keys
infected, and keeps counting. It hit 265,000 overnight
before it locked up this morning when I tried to see if I
could do something about it. Please help - the Adware
removal didn't seem to make any difference.

Thanks.

>-----Original Message-----
>16 hours is way too long even for full scan. There should
>be a number that tells you how many files AV has scanned.
>look if it increases.
>
>just for comparison, it took me 10 minutes to full scan a
>12gig drive on a Athlon 2500+ w/1024MB ram and 15 minutes
>on a P3 700Mhz lappy with 8 gig hdd
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Depends on the size of your HDD and the number of files,
>>size of registry etc. but 16 hrs is a bit extreme. Try
>>using another scanner like AdAware or Spybot and see if
>>they also take a long time. It takes about 10 minutes on
>>my system with about 15 GB of stuff. TTFN.
>>.
>>
>.
>

do you mean 60,000 registry scanned or infected? Cuz if you have that much
infected registry keys, then either you have some serious problem on your
computer or it's a bug.

you can also try to run a reg scaner/fixer. sorry, I can't remember the name
of any but I'm sure you can find one at download.com

"Matti" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> It seems to get hung up on registry keys. It's been
> running for an hour or so now (after running Adware, which
> only took a few minutes). It's at 60,000 registry keys
> infected, and keeps counting. It hit 265,000 overnight
> before it locked up this morning when I tried to see if I
> could do something about it. Please help - the Adware
> removal didn't seem to make any difference.
>
> Thanks.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>16 hours is way too long even for full scan. There should
>>be a number that tells you how many files AV has scanned.
>>look if it increases.
>>
>>just for comparison, it took me 10 minutes to full scan a
>>12gig drive on a Athlon 2500+ w/1024MB ram and 15 minutes
>>on a P3 700Mhz lappy with 8 gig hdd
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>Depends on the size of your HDD and the number of files,
>>>size of registry etc. but 16 hrs is a bit extreme. Try
>>>using another scanner like AdAware or Spybot and see if
>>>they also take a long time. It takes about 10 minutes on
>>>my system with about 15 GB of stuff. TTFN.
>>>.
>>>
>>.
>>

Paul L. wrote:
> do you mean 60,000 registry scanned or infected? Cuz if you have that
> much infected registry keys, then either you have some serious
> problem on your computer or it's a bug.

LOL.....you're right.....it's one big "bug".

ELAINE!! Every time you've posted some reply to a thread
it's been "LOL" this and "LOL" that. Please construct
something a little more constructive and relevant to the
newsgroup you are posting in!!!!

Thanks

Mark


>-----Original Message-----
>Paul L. wrote:
>> do you mean 60,000 registry scanned or infected? Cuz
if you have that
>> much infected registry keys, then either you have some
serious
>> problem on your computer or it's a bug.
>
>LOL.....you're right.....it's one big "bug".
>
>
>.
>

Mark wrote:
> ELAINE!! Every time you've posted some reply to a thread
> it's been "LOL" this and "LOL" that. Please construct
> something a little more constructive and relevant to the
> newsgroup you are posting in!!!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark

LOL ...........

lol hahaha

"Elaine" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Mark wrote:
>> ELAINE!! Every time you've posted some reply to a thread
>> it's been "LOL" this and "LOL" that. Please construct
>> something a little more constructive and relevant to the
>> newsgroup you are posting in!!!!
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mark
>
> LOL ...........
>