Slow Microsoft 2003 Email after Spybot Imunize

[billy bronco]

Okay, I know there has been an issue out there on this subject but being a computer novice I can not seem to fix it.

Running windows XP, Microsoft Outlook 2003, SP2, EI7, Spybot 1.4

As soon I installed spybot, ran and di Imunize my email crapped out, locks up and runs supper slow - Outlook pegs the CPU - nothing else runs until it calms down, take a minute or two.

I tried to remove spybot completely, this did not help.

I read one solution was to dis-enable the imunize but i don't how to do this, can't find an option to shut it off.

Any ideas of what to do and detailed on how, thanks

Bill

[Chuck]

Open Spybot; click on Immunize; click on Undo. That should do it. You may also want to go to Internet Options from the Control Panel and see if there are any remaining sites in the Restricted Zone, possibly placed there from other programs or manual entry.

[billy bronco]

That was easy, looks like it fixed the problem, time will tell thanks so much!

[Frosty]

Is this issue going to be fixable in version 1.5? or is this more of a microsoft problem? Just curious, I hate turning immunization off. I was able to fix the problem by undoing and then re-immunizing, but that doesn't seem to work any more, so I have immunization off.

Thanks for a reply!

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

We are sorry, but this is a Microsoft bug.
We have already contacted them to fix it.
Spybot - Search & Destroy adds sites to the restricted zones during the immunization.
The outlook programm is proving every entry that is added to the restricted zones, so this is causing a hang of the software. We hope to solve this problem soon.

For more information please do also have a look at our forum:
http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.p...6&postcount=52
above from this thread:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=11047

Also, have a look here:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=14001
and two links above include a link to aumha forums here:
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?p=151711#151711

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[md usa spybot fan]

The problem is a Microsoft issue, not a Spybot issue. See the following synopsis by Jim Eshelman at AumHa:
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?p=151711#151711

Besides the workarounds in the above article, the problem appears to be mitigated by the addition of the following registry entry if you are using outlook.exe:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_MIME_SNIFFING]
"outlook.exe"=dword:00000001

If you are using winmail.exe, try adding the following registry entry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_MIME_SNIFFING]
"winmail.exe"=dword:00000001

[billy bronco]

Is there still a good reason to use Spybot and run it periodically even though immunization is turned off?

[md usa spybot fan]

billy bronco:

Certainly. Actually there is more of a reason to run Spybot periodically because with immunization turned off you are more susceptible to infection.

Please consider adding the registry I published, immunizing again and see if the slowness is gone.