Is 'check for problems' taking too long?

[maggeye]

I've just been looking at FAQ and saw this - Why is Spybot-S&D that fast?
Mine takes about 2 hours which I don't consider particularly fast. Is that normal?
Because it takes that amount of time and slows everything down I don't run it as often as I ought to.

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

Please do the following:
Clean your Cache and Cookies in IE:

* Close all instances of Outlook Express and Internet Explorer
* Go to Control Panel > Internet Options > General tab
* Click the "Delete Cookies" button
* Next to it, Click the "Delete Files" button
* When prompted, place a check in: "Delete all offline content",
click OK

Clean your Cache and Cookies in Firefox (In case you also have
Firefox installed):

* Go to Tools > Options.
* Click Privacy in the menu on the left side of the Options window.
* Click the Clear button located to the right of each option
(History, Cookies, Cache).
* Click OK to close the Options window
Alternatively, you can clear all information stored while browsing
by clicking Clear All.
A confirmation dialog box will be shown before clearing the
information.

Clean other Temporary files + Recycle bin

* Go to start > run and type: *cleanmgr* and click ok.
* Let it scan your system for files to remove.
* Make sure Temporary Files, Temporary Internet Files, and Recycle
Bin are the only things checked.
* Press OK to remove them.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[maggeye]

Hello
Firstly I never use OE or IE.
Firefox cache etc. is cleared every day on shut down.
I regularly run CCleaner and also Easy Cleaner for uneccessary files.
I ran Disk Cleanup just now Temp. Files was 0, recycle bin 0, and Temp Int files was 13 kb

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

Please make sure that you are running the latest version of Spybot - Search & Destroy including the latest updates.

To see which version number and/or updates of Spybot - Search & Destroy you are using please run Spybot-S&D and choose "Help" --> "About" in the menu bar.
There you can see which version you have and which updates are installed.
It should be version 1.5.2 and the updates from the 2008/05/21.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[maggeye]

It is the latest version,downloaded a few weeks ago, and was updated yesterday before I ran it.

[PepiMK]

That FAQ entry indeed was from quite some time ago, before the amount of malware (and our countermeasures) exploded.

2 hours is quite long though, 1.5.2 should need between 10 and 30 minutes on modern systems.

Since speed is always an issue though, and we're recognizing that, I added this proxy task to the bugtracker

[maggeye]

Thank you,