SD5+web-page freeze/NIS 2006/slow down

[Trip the Light Fantastic]

Its hard to be objective about such a buggy version, but here it goes:

Compatibility issues with NIS 2006- NIS 2006 does not allow SD5 to update

OnGuard freezes FF2 (web-sites) - random web pages are rendered completely thrashed (wrong fonts/seize/layout...etc)

Web-sites - web pages freeze for no apparent reason

scanning - the green bar does not run smoothly but jumps in inexplicable 'blocks', utterly confusing...

Its painfully slow compared with SD 4

I spend the best part of the afternoon trying to do something useful with this version, alas I'm back to SD 4 and things are just working again.

I don't know what procedure beta-testing followed, but IMHO it couldn't have involved extensive checking. This version dealt a serious blow to PC Tools reputation of providing reliable, user-friendly and clean looking trouble free products.

I really would have loved liking this product but the damage is done. When it comes to security, the issuing of such a buggy product is inexcusable.

[Cutter]

I have to agree, same problems here with nis06, and no way am i giving up norton it's done me will for over three years now, i'm scared to use sd to be honest, not to keen on waiting for an update on it, i'll wait untill people start saying it's a great product, if not i only have three months left on it.

[Hydrod]

I've updated my copy V.4.0 to V.5 and found that my machine just locked up using all of my AMD4000 cpu, 100% and could not for the life of me get the thing working. With much :mad: aggravation I finally got the program out of my computer, only to find that on reboot it was still there :eek: it still froze up everything. Upon another reboot I disabled the program as soon as the Icon showed up, after everything loaded the machine worked great :D I then restarted Spyware Doctor. It worked good for about 10min then :mad: crashed again, Did this over again but this time I disabled the AntiVirus program that came with it. Guess what, It works great, for that last 4 hours and about 5 reboots it just keeps on going.

PC TOOLS

Just a thought, your AntiVirus program installed in Spyware 5.0 just might have a memory leak. There are a lot of people with similar problems.