AdAware, Spybot S&D and CPU cycles

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In addition to AVG, I run AdAware and Spybot on my Win2K machine: 1,33
Athlon with 512 megs of memory on a dial-ip connection. I notice that
running AdAware and Spybot takes takes up 99% of processor capacity,
with some variation. Why so processor intensive? Is this normal?

-PS
 
Peter said:
In addition to AVG, I run AdAware and Spybot on my Win2K machine: 1,33
Athlon with 512 megs of memory on a dial-ip connection. I notice that
running AdAware and Spybot takes takes up 99% of processor capacity,
with some variation. Why so processor intensive? Is this normal?

-PS
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I use XP Pro but adaware and spybot taking 99% does not seem normal to
me.Perhaps you have some malware.Try scanning your system with an online
scanner.I have links to some on my site.
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dont know about spybot but ad-aware is processor intensive during a scan,
but while fiddling in its gui with settings and what not, 0-1% cpu

ad-aware running at 70-99% cpu a in depth file scan of windows, and
documents and settings, 40280 objects, took 2mins 42 here

ad-aware running at 10-30% cpu (had another process running 70-90% cpu to
throttle ad-aware), took 6mins 22, so, im happier with it taking as much cpu
as possible if it finishes the scan much quicker

with in-depth turned off same scan takes 7 seconds :-)
 
madmax said:
I use XP Pro but adaware and spybot taking 99% does not seem normal to
me.Perhaps you have some malware.Try scanning your system with an
online scanner.I have links to some on my site.
-max
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I've run a couple of online scanners and they told me my machine was
clean (Trend Micro, Bit Defender).
Ran TrojanScan but it crashed IE.
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/. Anyone else experienced
this?
Found Ewido, downloaded it and it told me my machine was clean (except
for a bunch of tracking cookies).
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/.

It appears that John Smith is correct..Ad-aware is very CPU intensive
during a scan (and Spybot even more so from my experience).

Thanks for the reply.

--PS
 
Peter said:
madmax wrote:




I've run a couple of online scanners and they told me my machine was
clean (Trend Micro, Bit Defender).
Ran TrojanScan but it crashed IE.
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/. Anyone else experienced
this?
Found Ewido, downloaded it and it told me my machine was clean (except
for a bunch of tracking cookies).
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/.

It appears that John Smith is correct..Ad-aware is very CPU intensive
during a scan (and Spybot even more so from my experience).

Thanks for the reply.

--PS
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Sorry,I misunderstood your question.If you open the configuration
window,there is a setting under"scanning engine"that you can change to
"run scan as background process"
Also spybot has a setting under "scan priority" you can set to low.
-max

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