Spybot 1.6 causes massive IE7 slowdown

[jmj713]

Just recently happily updated to Spybot 1.6, but noticed massive slowdowns in IE7 when opening IE7 for the first time, and opening any new tabs. It could take literally up to a minute. This also coincided with the most recent Windows Update, so at first I suspected that. But then I ran IE7 without any addons, and it worked flawlessly as before. Doing trial-and-error I uncovered that the two Spybot addons were responsible for this effect. This is with both Vista and XP.

[DougCuk]

Have you checked if this is due to the large size of the Hosts file immunisation? You can test this by disabling just this specific immunisation - if this is the cause there is a fix some are already using. Try disabling the DNS Client Service (works on both XP and Vista) to avoid this symptom - which can be caused by an overload of the DNS Cache.

Run Services.msc and Stop the DNS Client Service and then change the Startup Type to Manual or Disabled. Any problems or this doesn't fix the problem then you just turn it back on.

Despite the MS description this service is not required for normal DNS resolution (unless you use Active Directory domains) and my systems seem to run just fine without it. Turning this service off just disables the DNS cache - all lookups go to the DNS servers direct. In my tests this doesn't seem to slow DNS lookups as long as your ISP's DNS servers are quick.

[jmj713]

Just disabled DNS Client Service in Services and reenabled the Spybot addons in IE7. IE7 went back to the very slow startup and opening new tabs.

[jmj713]

Any other ideas, anyone?

[wyrmrider]

are you running T-timer?
lots of threads on t-timer perceived slowness
also track the fix on the False Positive issue for Dos commands

[jmj713]

I am running TeaTimer, of course. Can you give me a bit more direction as to what I could do?

[georgia bulldog]

I am having a major slow down since I updated to spybot 1.6.2. It takes much longer to access a website and it holds pages and will not release for a minute or longer. Any fix other than deleting spybot or going back to an earlier release, if that is possible? thanks for any help.

[spybotsandra]

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