Thank you for ruining . . . . .
another good program! I've been using Spybot for over 3 years and the program "was" great. Never had one problem. Updates were easy and fast along with everything else. I ran weekly full pc scans which completed in an average of 25 minutes. Now, with the recent program updates, scans now take anywhere over 4 hours. I've never really finished one, got tired of waiting. It seems to scan only 1 file at a time whereas it used to fly along. What have you done to destroy this program? I see from the forums many people are experiencing the same problem. Needless to say Spybot is no longer welcome on my machine and has been removed. The biggest laugh is when all the Spybot techs try to put the blame on the individuals machines instead of finding the problem within Spybot and fixing it!
Don't blame Spybot, blame the Malware creators
After seeing that chart it's no wonder scan times have increased (though in my case the increase is negligable).
There are also many other reasons why scan times can increase e.g a fragmented Hard Drive, too many resident programs, too little RAM etc. If your having trouble with long scan times try looking at your system first before blaming Spybot as sometimes the unlikeliest thing can cause alot of trouble:police:.