Newbie with a problem

[jpacker]

I've been using S&D without a hitch for several years. Recently, my scans get hung up about 6000 files into the scan always at CoolWWWSearch. From that point the scan runs so slow that it takes about 15 hours to complete (if I allow it to continue running.) Could there be a bug causing this? I noticed that there is another thread where someone talks about his machine getting hung up about 1/3 of the way through a scan.

Please offer some advice.

Thanks,
Jeff

[Taffy Apple]

Ok I'm not saying this will work, but seems you mentioned CWS lets rule that out or get rid of it.

Go to trendmicro or download.com and get CWShredder. Before you run it, set your folder options to display hidden files and extensions for known files.

Then run CWShredder. It may pick something up, you never know. If it does then try S&D again.

Hope that helps.

[jpacker]

I ran CWShredder. The machine was not infected. What should I take as the next step?

Thanks,
Jeff

[tashi]

Hello jpacker.

Please open Spybot>Help>About
Let us know the version and latest detection update.

Did you see this topic:
Very long duration of scan after update (was: problem running scan) (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=10443&page=11)

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=10443&page=16

It is a long thread, so I linked you to pages 11 and 16. :)