Spyware slowing down IE?

[Liam Knuj]

I just installed this yesterday and it found tons of
spyware on my machine, many of which I knew about but
couldn't manually delete. That's the good news.

The bad news is that my browser has slowed to a crawl with
or without RealTime protection enabled. It seems that
each time I click on a link, several seconds goes by
before it even attempts to access the URL I clicked on, I
am behind a very decent cable modem on a fast Dell
desktop. This only started happening after I installed
this product, it was responding fine before this. Anyone
else seen this LARGE performance hit?

 

[Mark]

Hey I think you're right!

I didn't notice it before but when I Shutdown the
AntiSpyware application completely, there was a
noticeable difference in browser performance. Albeit that
it isn't very much but there does appear to be a slight
difference. This Beta testing should allow Microsoft to
streamline AntiSpyware's performance on the lead-up to
final release.

Regards

Mark

 

[The Unknown P]

I found that this has been happening a great deal on the
net in general these last few weeks. Sometimes it's almost
instantaneous and other times it's very very slow. At
times like this you can use tracert to determine if there
is a bottle neck in your route.Simple go>start\run and
type in cmd and then in the command line window type in:
tracert www.microsoft.com or any other URL that you want
to trace the route to. Be sure to leave a space after
tracert . You will see the hop time in ms (miliseconds-1
milisecond=1 thousands of a sec.) and the larger the
number the longer it took to clear that server. Remember,
most URL's are never a direct route and must go through
many hops to get to the specified location. Tracing, and
make note of, where the slowdown occurs, will help you to
identify route problems. If it is a constant slow down, at
the same hop, then you can contact your IP and see if they
could help or at least check to see if this is a known
problem with that server.TTFN