Very slow scanning

[drragostea]

Thanks Greyfox for the links, I'll look into it now.

[CarefreeComputers]

After downloading all updates, the scan is so slow.....only third done in over an hour.....both scans as I exited, then tried again. I have never had this problem before with SP.
Pamelab

This might be a remote possibility, but is the offending system running anything like Boinc, seti or anything that runs the processor at 100%?

Ive come across people running that on their system and surprised that their systems run slowly!!!!

[corseb]

After downloading all updates, the scan is so slow.....only third done in over an hour.....both scans as I exited, then tried again. I have never had this problem before with SP.
Pamelab

Hi, I am a new user!
My spybot was very very slow until a few months ago...Took like 2-3 hours to do a scan... It use to be much faster!

I checked today before asking here: I had 1.5.2 (I think it was .2 at the end) and to my surprise I had two versions installed (in c:programfiles/spybot, etc..the default path)... I uninstalled one, rebooted...uninstalled the other, rebooted.... I also cleaned the registry a bit with tools like regcleaner and CCcleaner...

So after all that I installed the version 1.6.0.3 and it appears much much faster!!!


By the way I was most of the time on XP Sp2, on a Laptop with DualCore2 T7200 at 2Ghz, 2Gb ram, Gforce 7900g0... Not too bad!

So maybe check on your programs files folder for a parasite older version??

Ha! even after uninstalling I found some files there called "plugin" I dont know... I got rid of them!