Spybot Users - Warning

[sare^baw's]

just a heads up, my previous installation of windows 7 took ages to get a wireless connection , chrome or IE took ages to load the Google home page.

i freshly installed windows 7 and this has cured it, it connected instantly and loaded Google homepage quickly.

after installing spy-bot and immunising, things slowed down again, the wireless device took longer to connect and Google homepage took longer to load. So i used the undo button on the immunisation feature and this has fixed the delayed connection and delayed Google homepage loading. If your having these symptoms spy-bot may be to blame. I have removed it.

oh and i had no other programs loading at startup.

 

[sare^baw's]

well it just seems to have slowed my homepage loading too much, goodness knows why my wireless adapter is taking longer to connect as well.

 

[sare^baw's]

i have been using spybot for years, as i have removed it is there an alternative, i run spywareblaster, malwarebytes and superantispyware, i usually just update them and run the scans i dont have them loading starting as programs at startup.

 

[sare^baw's]

I've had Spybot installed for years, will see what the performance is like without it!

i found uninstalling it alone did not help, i had to use the undo button on the immunization so that there was zero items protected, then i removed it.

 

[sare^baw's]

maybe faster machines you wont notice a difference, i had the same problem with my cousins laptop as i done a fresh install on his laptop of w7, so removed spy bot. I removed spybot from my main pc and its connecting to the internet quicker and loading the google homepage quicker, and im not just talking a couple of seconds.

 

[sare^baw's]

Have followed your advice, thanks again

have you noticed any improvement?