Spybot Messed up Windows Mail

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I loaded Spybot S&D for some extra protection, but when I did so Windows Mail
got real slow. I uninstalled SB via System Restore and the problem went away.
Could it be soemthing to do with SB altering the registry? I've used S&D for
years on XP and had no problem with it at all running Outlook. Does anyone
know of a pyware program that works well with Windows Mail? I'm thinking of
just running Defender and hope for the best.
 
Joe

The problem is the entries that Spybot (and SpywareBlaster) put into IE7
restricted sites.. apparently, there was a fix for this but it never worked
for me..

I too only use Windows Defender now, and sometimes back it up with Adaware
which doesn't ever find anything other than tracking cookies..

As long as you are careful 'where you go today', there should not be too
much of a problem.. if you do want extra protection, do not use anything
which claims to 'immunize' IE7..


Joe said:
I loaded Spybot S&D for some extra protection, but when I did so Windows
Mail
got real slow. I uninstalled SB via System Restore and the problem went
away.
Could it be soemthing to do with SB altering the registry? I've used S&D
for
years on XP and had no problem with it at all running Outlook. Does anyone
know of a pyware program that works well with Windows Mail? I'm thinking
of
just running Defender and hope for the best.
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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
Come to think of it, the problems didn't start unitl I did the immunize
function. Anyway, I installed the free version of AVG Spyware protection and
it seems to work fine. I'll give it 30 days and then upgrade to the premium
version.
Thanks
 
Spybot S&D adds thousands of entries to the registry if you use the
Immunize feature. These are thousands of entries in the Windows Registry
that IE and Windows Mail has to read every time they do anything.

Just uninstalling Spybot S&D will just leave the entries in the
Registry. You have to use it's Undo function in its Immunize screen before
uninstalling. Using System Restore apparently worked for you, and you
apparently restored it to a point before Spybot S&D immunized, that is,
added registry keys under, most likely,

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap\Domains
And, possibly,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap\Domains

If you open IE7 > Tools > internet Options, go to the Security tab, select
the Restricted Sites icon, and then click on the Sites button, do you see a
lot of entries in the list?

Here's more info on loading down the registry by adding a slew of sites to
IE's Restricted Sites zone:

By Richard Urban, concerning Spybot S & D, under
the subject "KB931768 problem - ***solved***" found in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance:

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...4e52&mid=33dde60d-71c7-4372-b669-7a32f6284e52

This blog, too, is very interesting (take note of the line in the article
"...the IE rendering engine will check the registry for entries in IE's
Restricted Sites zone **every time you type a character***." Not that this,
applies to your situation, per se, but it's one symptom of the over-all
issue of IE7, or Windows Mail, performance problems with some Anti-Malware
programs):

http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2007/05/13/901386.aspx
 
Thanks to all. Like GTS said, Restore apparently put it back to pre-Spybot
settings, as WM is as fast as before. I had the same problem with McKafee
before i got rid of it. I'm running AVG Spyware now, which works very well
with WM. When WM is running correctly, it's a good program but it's too buggy
for me. I'm going to try WLM for awhile.
 
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