Spybot search and destroy

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When you spot someone with what appears to be a
vested interest you can generally safely ignore them though.
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I have absolutely no vested interest in this, and I rather resent your
implied slur. I'm sorry if I misjudge you, but you'll hear no more from
anyway. I can't be bothered.
 
Alexander Farquad said:
I've been using SPYBOT S&D (free) for YEARS and it's been nothing
short of
great. Easy to use and a better bug catcher and destroyer you'll not
find,
period.
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I have been using it for years as well and just had to disable the
Immunization part. It (and 2 or 3 others) interfere with Internet
Explorer 8 and it barely crawls. Once I got the information from the MS
guys, I disabled it and also SpywareBlaster seems to be part and parcel
of it because many of its protection features were disabled as well.

I miss having them working........well, I was going to get rid of Spybot
cuz it is too slow. But it was also slowing down Firefox which is the
only browser I use, so I had no choice but to disable Spybot. Firefox
was immediately back to normal as well once I did that.

Just my 2 cents worth.......Heather
 
I miss having them working........well, I was going to get rid of Spybot
cuz it is too slow. But it was also slowing down Firefox which is the
only browser I use, so I had no choice but to disable Spybot. Firefox
was immediately back to normal as well once I did that.
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Heather, how can Spybot slow down any browser? It runs and then it
finishes. The immunisation feature is the ony thing I can think of which
has a more or less permanent effect, and I can't see how that could slow
down any browser. What am I missing, or do you in fact have some other
problem with your PC?

Regards,

Roy
 
Heather, how can Spybot slow down any browser? It runs and then it
finishes. The immunisation feature is the ony thing I can think of which
has a more or less permanent effect, and I can't see how that could slow
down any browser. What am I missing, or do you in fact have some other
problem with your PC?
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The immunization feature of Spybot *can* cause the slowing down of IE8.
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=46906
http://msmvps.com/blogs/donna/archi...mmunization-by-spybot-s-amp-d-is-enabled.aspx
 
Slarty said:
Heather, how can Spybot slow down any browser? It runs and then it
finishes. The immunisation feature is the ony thing I can think of
which
has a more or less permanent effect, and I can't see how that could
slow
down any browser. What am I missing, or do you in fact have some other
problem with your PC?
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Hi Hon.......read what Fred put out there. I have been back and forth
with PA Bear (MS MVP) and yes, the Immunization feature was just killing
both IE8 and FF. But worse with IE8. I was going to remove it, but
since FF was now much faster decided to stay with a disabled Spybot.

The link Fred gave refers back to discussions in March, I believe. But
I know that they knew around Mar. 20th that Spybot and 2 or 3 others
were playing havoc with IE8. I don't use IE very often, so was a bit
slow off the mark on that. MS sneakily downloaded it when I wasn't
looking!! (G)

Cheers......Heather

PS....I would have to find the exact name, but it is a security feature
in IE8 that Spybot is tangling with. If you want the name, I will find
it.
 
Hi Hon.......read what Fred put out there. I have been back and forth
with PA Bear (MS MVP) and yes, the Immunization feature was just killing
both IE8 and FF. But worse with IE8. I was going to remove it, but
since FF was now much faster decided to stay with a disabled Spybot.
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Hm, I've had no such problems with neither Firefox nor Opera on XP or
Vista.

Ah the wonders of Microsnot!

Cheers,

Roy
 
FF is no longer secure, on account of a .NET update from MS.
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I removed all .NET Framework from my PC.
(I use no programs requiring any version of Framework.)

I am confident my Firefox (3.5.b4) is safe.
I have no strange extensions or plugins.
;-)
 
I removed all .NET Framework from my PC.
(I use no programs requiring any version of Framework.)

I am confident my Firefox (3.5.b4) is safe.
I have no strange extensions or plugins.
;-)
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Even if you left .NET installed you could just uninstall that addon I bet.
 
FF is no longer secure, on account of a .NET update from MS.

From the mozilla.support.firefox group:
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Thank you for all that, but I am already well aware of the problem and have
taken steps to remove it. Permanently.

Too much to post here, and good advice can easily be found on the net with
a modicum of searching, but 'Windows Secrets' is a good place to start.
They were on to this in February with advice. It may have been in the
subscription version, I can't recall now.

Cheers,

Roy
 
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