Spybot s-l-o-w on my machine.

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Andy O.

Spybot S&D has really slowed down on my machine of late. Seems to have
grown more slow with each update. Now, when it reaches the place where
it's scanning for "Zwax" nasties it really chuffs to a crawl. The
whole search takes about 35-45 minutes on a 2.6 gig P4, 80 gig HD, 512
Meg RAM. machine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
 
Andy O. said:
Spybot S&D has really slowed down on my machine of late. Seems to have
grown more slow with each update. Now, when it reaches the place where
it's scanning for "Zwax" nasties it really chuffs to a crawl. The
whole search takes about 35-45 minutes on a 2.6 gig P4, 80 gig HD, 512
Meg RAM. machine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
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Defragment your drive
 
"Spybot S&D has really slowed down on my machine of late"
I maintain about 20 comp's, same result.
Here are others I use as well.

Foxie
http://www.getfoxie.com/

My SpyCatcher tips.
What it does, after the search, it offers choices of what to do with
files found, which can be a bit daunting.
All these choices, like > Ask, can ( after research or your own
knowledge of what you have installed ) be changed, if they are false
positives. In the Status window, the Protection ( in the middle of the
page ) section, click on the files found.
It also finds uninstall exe's, which I change to > Allow.
SpyCatcher Express
http://www.tenebril.com/consumer/spyware/spycatcher-express.php

ewido security suite free for Windows 2000/XP
http://www.ewido.net/en/features/
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

SpywareBlaster
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoft.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Bazooka
http://www.webgrid.co.uk/security_2.html
http://www.webgrid.co.uk/index.html
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?17000000037943
http://www.kephyr.com/

NetDetox
http://www.netdetox.com/
95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP/2003
 
Spybot S&D has really slowed down on my machine of late. Seems to have
grown more slow with each update. Now, when it reaches the place where
it's scanning for "Zwax" nasties it really chuffs to a crawl. The
whole search takes about 35-45 minutes on a 2.6 gig P4, 80 gig HD, 512
Meg RAM. machine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
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No suggestions for you, other than be happy it's taking as short as it
is. It went forever on a 500 mhz Celeron with 64 megs ram here. Never
had that problem before. I wonder what's changed?
 
timthebaker said:
No suggestions for you, other than be happy it's taking as short as it
is. It went forever on a 500 mhz Celeron with 64 megs ram here. Never
had that problem before. I wonder what's changed?
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I just updated and ran mine. It took just under 5 minutes to scan my
1/2 full 60 Gbyte drive. This is on a P4 w/1Gb ram, running windows 2k sp4.

As so often happens, the update would crap out w/"bad checksum" on the
first couple of servers but worked like a champ on the 3rd attempt.

Wrt to suggestions, I *strongly* suggest you hop on over to Spybot's
forums. They're moderate-very active and there are a number of threads
related to "slow." <ahem>. The one I picked at random talked about
very slow scans on machines w/kapersky av.

http://forums.spybot.info/

Let us know if you find anything.

-Craig
 
Thanks to everyone!

I don't know that I have the answer to my problem yet, but I think
you've pointed me in the right direction to find it.

Andy O.
 
Andy O. said:
Thanks to everyone!

I don't know that I have the answer to my problem yet, but I think
you've pointed me in the right direction to find it.

Andy O.
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Please post back if you get an answer
 
Spybot S&D has really slowed down on my machine of late. Seems
to have grown more slow with each update. Now, when it reaches
the place where it's scanning for "Zwax" nasties it really
chuffs to a crawl. The whole search takes about 35-45 minutes on
a 2.6 gig P4, 80 gig HD, 512 Meg RAM. machine.

Any suggestions?
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Zwak is one of the last nasties Spybot tests. After that I beleieve
it goes and scan other partitions. Check to see that you have not
specified large folders in other partitions for Spybot to scan (for
example in Spybot's Settings > Directories).
 
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