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    Default How to exclude scan of Bookmarks & Favorites

    Hi,
    Is there a way to exclude Mozilla Bookmarks and IE Favorites
    from the Spybot scan?

    In Advanced Mode I looked in Settings but I can't find anyplace
    to disable scan of Bookmarks or Favorites.

    FYI: I have thousands of Mozilla Bookmarks that are dupicated as
    IE Favorites and it takes 10 mins or so just to scan them. I
    really don't need to scan them.

    ---pete---

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    No,I don't believe there is a way to exclude bookmarks or favorites from the scan.
    Last edited by Zenobia; 2005-12-10 at 22:43.

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    PeteF
    Why do you want to exclude these??it will not make you saving much time after all??
    Bye

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danny

    Why do you want to exclude these??
    it will not make you saving much time after all??
    Bye
    Danny, allow me to clarify...

    On my SLOW WinME computer it takes 29 minutes for entire scan.
    16.75 minutes for all other files and 12.25 minutes for the bookmarks.
    That's 42% of the total time I can save by excluding bookmarks/favorites.

    On my FAST WinXP computer it takes 10.25 minutes for entire scan.
    7.12 minutes for all other files and 3.13 minutes for the bookmarks.
    That's 31% of the total time I can save by excluding bookmarks/favorites.

    That's a substancial time savings in both cases.
    I'd really like to be able to disable the scan of bookmarks & favorites.

    ---pete---

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeteF
    Danny, allow me to clarify...

    On my SLOW WinME computer it takes 29 minutes for entire scan.
    16.75 minutes for all other files and 12.25 minutes for the bookmarks.
    That's 42% of the total time I can save by excluding bookmarks/favorites.

    On my FAST WinXP computer it takes 10.25 minutes for entire scan.
    7.12 minutes for all other files and 3.13 minutes for the bookmarks.
    That's 31% of the total time I can save by excluding bookmarks/favorites.

    That's a substancial time savings in both cases.
    I'd really like to be able to disable the scan of bookmarks & favorites.

    ---pete---
    Ok!!i had take for example my scans....i see i big difference between your scantime and mine!nothing to compare!in this case,i agree your tentative to exclude these!:D ..it 's was a good idea to display your scan result...
    Bye

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