S
Slarty
I have absolutely no vested interest in this, and I rather resent your
implied slur. I'm sorry if I misjudge you, but you'll hear no more from
anyway. I can't be bothered.
I have absolutely no vested interest in this, and I rather resent your
implied slur. I'm sorry if I misjudge you, but you'll hear no more from
anyway. I can't be bothered.
S
Slarty
Sconded, or should that be thirded?
H
Heather
Alexander Farquad said:
I have been using it for years as well and just had to disable the
Immunization part. It (and 2 or 3 others) interfere with Internet
Explorer 8 and it barely crawls. Once I got the information from the MS
guys, I disabled it and also SpywareBlaster seems to be part and parcel
of it because many of its protection features were disabled as well.
I miss having them working........well, I was going to get rid of Spybot
cuz it is too slow. But it was also slowing down Firefox which is the
only browser I use, so I had no choice but to disable Spybot. Firefox
was immediately back to normal as well once I did that.
Just my 2 cents worth.......Heather
S
Slarty
Heather, how can Spybot slow down any browser? It runs and then it
finishes. The immunisation feature is the ony thing I can think of which
has a more or less permanent effect, and I can't see how that could slow
down any browser. What am I missing, or do you in fact have some other
problem with your PC?
Regards,
Roy
F
FredW
The immunization feature of Spybot *can* cause the slowing down of IE8.
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=46906
http://msmvps.com/blogs/donna/archi...mmunization-by-spybot-s-amp-d-is-enabled.aspx
H
Heather
Hi Hon.......read what Fred put out there. I have been back and forthSlarty said:
with PA Bear (MS MVP) and yes, the Immunization feature was just killing
both IE8 and FF. But worse with IE8. I was going to remove it, but
since FF was now much faster decided to stay with a disabled Spybot.
The link Fred gave refers back to discussions in March, I believe. But
I know that they knew around Mar. 20th that Spybot and 2 or 3 others
were playing havoc with IE8. I don't use IE very often, so was a bit
slow off the mark on that. MS sneakily downloaded it when I wasn't
looking!! (G)
Cheers......Heather
PS....I would have to find the exact name, but it is a security feature
in IE8 that Spybot is tangling with. If you want the name, I will find
it.
S
Slarty
I would never use that, Firefox for me, but that's far from being the only
reason. I'm not sure why there should be that problem though. I like
learning new things. Thanks.
Cheers,
Roy
S
Slarty
Hm, I've had no such problems with neither Firefox nor Opera on XP or
Vista.
Ah the wonders of Microsnot!
Cheers,
Roy
F
FredW
I removed all .NET Framework from my PC.
(I use no programs requiring any version of Framework.)
I am confident my Firefox (3.5.b4) is safe.
I have no strange extensions or plugins.
;-)
M
Michael Cecil
Even if you left .NET installed you could just uninstall that addon I bet.
F
FredW
And a special patch from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=cecc62dc-96a7-4657-af91-6383ba034eab
S
Slarty
Thank you for all that, but I am already well aware of the problem and have
taken steps to remove it. Permanently.
Too much to post here, and good advice can easily be found on the net with
a modicum of searching, but 'Windows Secrets' is a good place to start.
They were on to this in February with advice. It may have been in the
subscription version, I can't recall now.
Cheers,
Roy