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Slow reading bookmark files

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Milesch

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Reinstall of Spybot on WinXP, Home. It completed the scan of 340,602 files in 27 minutes. Then apparently continued with 3 bookmark files from Firefox 2 & 3 + SeaMonkey (as evidenced by the line at the bottom of the screen) which was completed in another 22 minutes. Total time 49 minutes.

Perhaps there is something with Spybot that has difficulty reading large files or every line of a bookmark file? If so, is there a method to exclude scanning these files? There is a setting to ignore single entries, but I believe that refers to items that are listed in that window, and there are none. If it can exclude individual files, can they simply be dragged in from WinExplorer?
 
Hello,

You can exclude a product from the search as follows:
First of all procede a scan with Spybot - Search & Destroy. Now, mark the item, you want to exclude from the search, with a left-click.
It is marked blue now. Then right-click this entry and select "exclude this product from further searches".

It is also possible to exclude it before the search. Please run Spybot - Search & Destroy in "Advanced Mode" and go to "Settings" -> "Ignore products". There you can tick the checkbox in front of the product you want to exclude from the search.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
 
Thanks for your reply. However, Advanced/settings/ignore products only lists Mozilla. I am not interested in deleting all of Mozilla, only the bookmark files in Firefox 2 & 3 and in SeaMonkey and can't find a method to do that.

Your other method is to go through the lengthy scan, then eliminate the files in question. Where are they listed (they are not in the listing of troubles found).
 
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