Internet Explorer Slow

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I have found that running MSAW with Auto Protection set
to start at System startup and run cuntinuously causes
Internet Explorer to slow down considerably or not to
open some pages at all.
I can only guess that this is one of the trade-offs of
MSAW but, to me, the slowdown plus the unopened pages is
to burdensome.
The question of whether MSAW is finding, and eliminating,
a lot more malware is up for grabs right now.
So I removed the Auto Protection, and run regular scans
of several different scanners to try to keep my system
clean.
It is Freeware, for now, so I guess I should not gripe
too much.
I must add that Microsoft, being the target of many
hackers that wish to do it harm, and also the main OS
supplier, should shoulder the cost of keeping it software
bug free.
 
I'm running with Auto Protection set to start at System Startup and I see no
degradation in IE speed at all. You may have some other problem.
Larry
 
Most users don't see this effect, or we'd be swamped here. I'm not doubting
what you saw, but I believe it is a bug seen on relatively few machines.
I'd encourage you to re-test when another beta build is released. If that
later release also shows this effect, it'd be nice to try to figure out what
the issue is on your machine.
 
You may be correct but the slowdown was corrected after I
diabled Auto Protection, and I cannot find another source
of the slowdown.
I have MANY processes running, and I have tried to cull
them to a minimum. I try to keep an eye on anything that
causes some sort of problem, and this was one of them.
Auto Protection disabled, problem gone, egro, Auto
Protection the culprit.
 
This one is really a mystery. Why could it be slowing it down? If you want
your system to be safe, you need to have it running, so if you disable
auto-protect, there is trade off.

Andre
 
I gues the only protection I have is in regular scans,
which is also a problem. I lose time in any case.
 
I have the exact same prolem !!

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I'm running with Auto Protection set to start at System Startup and I see no
degradation in IE speed at all. You may have some other problem.
Larry




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Yeah, Right, another edition.
I'm getting tired of being one of MS' Guinea pigs.
When are they going to start any sort of extensive
testing before they release something?
They have the market locked up. They should forget
Inovations for a while, and stick to FIX, FIX, FIX.
 
This is a beta release. This implies that the software is not up to the bar
of a final released product. Given the record-breaking download rate of
this beta, I don't find the level of problems reported here surprising.

If you are feeling imposed upon, you are free to remove the beta and not use
it at any time.
 
No problem here with XP Pro SP2. 450 Mhz Pentium III, 380 MB RAM, two HD-D's
and some 7 applications on start up and some 30 running processes plus lots
of other stuff. Ethereal and CurrPorts, ZA, AVG, Winpatrol, MyNetwatchman,
Visual Zone, MSAS, Spybot S&D, SpywareBlaster running and listen to music
while surfing the web....not bad at all and no slowing down in speed.

Thanks Microsoft for doing such a good program, I can just await the final
version with eager.

Gunilla.
 
I thought that when you agreed to use a beta program that
you in essence had agreed to be a "guinea pig". I think
that is the purpose of a beta version, test and evaluate.
 
I removed the AntiSpyware app and now my Internet Explorer
is permanently slow. I have to use Mozilla in order to get
any reasonable performance. Funny thing is that i have an
unprivlaged user account that was not used (logged in) at
all when MSASW was installed - it;s Internet Explorer is
just as fast as it ever was. Somting gets changed when
MSASW is installed and run and it does not get reset when
it is un-installed. So, from my experence removing the
application will not help.

I cannot find what was changed.
 
Lets be clear about what you really did.

You installed Microsoft antispyware, perhaps updated its definitions, and
you scanned your machine, and removed spyware right?

Then you uninstalled it.

Wasn't there more to this story than simply installing Microsoft
antispyware, and then uninstalling it?

I don't believe that installing and uninstalling Microsoft antispyware
should make a permanent performance change in your system. I can easily
believe that removing spyware might make such a change--but this ought to be
fixable.

If you didn't apparently lose Internet connectivity when you removed
spyware, you probably didn't get a recommendation to do a Winsock LSP reset.

Here are a couple of things to try to see if they fix your "slow browsing"
issue. I'd like to work with you to try to get this fixed, although I'm not
sure I'm the most expert person for the job.

1) Reset Winsock.

Follow the instructions in this KB article. Depending on the version of
Windows you are running, and the Service Pack level, this can be quite easy,
or slightly more involved:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892350

2) If this (plus a restart) doesn't do the job, I'd recommend resetting
TCP/IP as a next step:

XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357

Windows 2000: http://www.petri.co.il/reinstall_tcp_ip_on_windows_2000.htm

Lets see if one or both of these steps does the job. If they don't,
reinstalling or repairing Internet Explorer is the next step, and I'll have
to find the right references for that--don't have them quickly at hand.
 
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