Resident Protection and SERIOUS Performance Problems

[BillGio]

I use both IE8 and Firefox on my 2GHz 4M WinXP laptop. I have Spybot installed on this laptop and also on all family WinXP computers. All SW & OS is updated weekly.

For the past year using Firefox, as my browsing session goes on, as a browwse more pages Firefox gets slower and slower, uses more and more RAM, and CPU usage creeps up to 45%. Eventually, Firefox stubbornly locks up and has to be killed from Process Explorer and re-started. This happens when antivirus is disabled, and also on a lab computer that has Spybot and no antivirus.

Two weeks ago, as an experiment, I right-clicked the Spybot icon in taskbar and UNchecked "Resident Protection".

WHOOWEE!!! :eek:

Both Firefox and are incredibly faster! The Firefox problems are gone. Browsing files with Windows Explorer is as fast as lightening.

I'm a huge fan of Spybot and years ago gave a donation, but this is a significant performance issue with Spybot Resident

[Wakefield]

Could this be a conflict with another antivirus if he is using one?
I wonder if setting Firefox so that the cache is cleared every time a session is closed would affect or help the problem?
I usually keep "Resident Teatimer" (another thing in Spybot that says "Resident" still has a check before I open it further) unchecked on my Spybot because I think my Norton antivirus fights with it. Looking at the "history" function in Norton seemed to show that it was blocking Spybot from doing something it wanted to do.

[BillGio]

Could this be a conflict with another antivirus if he is using one?
Absolutely not. Please re-read my original post. As I originally wrote,
This happens when antivirus is disabled, and also on a lab computer that has Spybot and no antivirus.



I wonder if setting Firefox so that the cache is cleared every time a session is closed would affect or help the problem?
No way. I can clear the cache DURING a browser session and it has absolutely no effect.

I'm sorry to say that this is definitely a flaw in Spybot Resident.