killing WD processes

[Guest]

After I installed WD and updated it, my Internet experienceed suffered
greatly, first everything slowed to a crawl, I crtl+aft+del and noticed that
something was causing the CPU usage to be 99%. I am extremely familiar with
the processes and appications running tabs in task manager. I killed all
three files related to WD, and the problem went away. Is there a way to keep
WD from loading at startup? Or should I just install it until this bug is
resolved? I would like to keep it but....

I am using WinXP Home SP2 and relevant updates, I have Norton 2004 and
basically just surf safe sites that don't have malware.

 

[Guest]

I meant "uninstall"

 

[Guest]

We seem to have lost the ability to use beta2 as an on demand scanner. If
enough people ask, maybe we will get that option back.

 

[Guest]

I don't want to uninstall just yet but I figure if I could figure out to kill
WD, Microsoft could make it easier.

 

[Guest]

Your are partly right. I exported my browser settings to a text file, and I
can reset them manually if needed. The feature in MSAS saved my behind when I
needed to restore and did not know what to restore to!!! It would be better
if WinDefend had this feature. But it has MANY other improved features that
make me want to keep it.

 

[Guest]

How could we ask Microsoft to extend more functionality into WD as in
on-demand application? Other than uninstalling WD, I have to keep turning WD
off as previously described in this post. If I don't, it just keeps starting
up and bogging down my web experience. It has gotten to the point where I can
tell when it starts up.

 

[Guest]

Had to kill it again, not even active for 10 minutes keeps bogging me down. I
killed all MS**** files processes associated with WD in Task Manager. Does
anyone know of a work-around.