Slowed to a Crawl

DBissett · #1 11-30-2006, 11:25 AM

After putting up with my computer running at a crawl ever since installing Spyware Doctor I uninstalled it yesterday and everything is back to normal. It looks like something is wrong with the program, perhaps a serious memory leak. I repeatedly exited the program but that never did much good. Every mouse click was affected and the machine seemed to be mired in quicksand all the time. Even attempts to shutdown the computer were often unsuccessful and very very very slow. So what gives? This is supposed to be a king of the hill program but it mostly just interfered with everything I tried to do on the computer once it was installed. Oh, and this not to mention that loading it takes completely forever!

Dave

ejr · #2 11-30-2006, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by DBissett

After putting up with my computer running at a crawl ever since installing Spyware Doctor I uninstalled it yesterday and everything is back to normal. It looks like something is wrong with the program, perhaps a serious memory leak. I repeatedly exited the program but that never did much good. Every mouse click was affected and the machine seemed to be mired in quicksand all the time. Even attempts to shutdown the computer were often unsuccessful and very very very slow. So what gives? This is supposed to be a king of the hill program but it mostly just interfered with everything I tried to do on the computer once it was installed. Oh, and this not to mention that loading it takes completely forever!

Dave

It could be that Spyware Doctor had a conflict with another piece of software on your PC. What firewall? Antivirus? Other Spywae Programs are using?

DBissett · #3 12-01-2006, 02:40 AM

Windows firewall, Avast antivirus, AdAwareSE w/Ad-Watch.

ejr · #4 12-01-2006, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DBissett

Windows firewall, Avast antivirus, AdAwareSE w/Ad-Watch.

Shouldn't be any conflicts there. Although AVAST does have a Web Filter that could possibly conflict with the Active protection in SD.

In any case, if you can't get SD to work on your System, the following programs are also excellent:

Spysweeper and Counterspy are also excellent. If you want free options, AVG Antispyware, Superantispoyware, and Spyware Terminator are all good.

SD in my opinion is the best though.

DBissett · #5 12-02-2006, 03:36 AM

Can you tell me what these programs do that Ad-Aware w/Ad-Watch doesn't do?

ejr · #6 12-02-2006, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by DBissett

Can you tell me what these programs do that Ad-Aware w/Ad-Watch doesn't do?

I am not familiar with Ad-watch. But I am familiar with adaware. There is no comparison really.

Spysweeper, Spyware Doctor, CounterSpy and Spyware Terminator all have active protections that prevent spyware from being installed in the first place. The free version of adaware does not. You have to upgrade adaware to the professional version to get this.

On top of that, Spysweeper, Spyware Doctor, and Counterspy all detect and remove a much higher percentage of spyware than does adaware.

Spyware Terminator is free, comes with active protection, and also comes with HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention System). This is very advanced for a free program. However, it is still in developmental stages and the scanner is not as the greatetst.

snooze · #7 12-10-2006, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by DBissett

After putting up with my computer running at a crawl ever since installing Spyware Doctor I uninstalled it yesterday and everything is back to normal. It looks like something is wrong with the program, perhaps a serious memory leak. I repeatedly exited the program but that never did much good. Every mouse click was affected and the machine seemed to be mired in quicksand all the time. Even attempts to shutdown the computer were often unsuccessful and very very very slow. So what gives? This is supposed to be a king of the hill program but it mostly just interfered with everything I tried to do on the computer once it was installed. Oh, and this not to mention that loading it takes completely forever!

Dave

I did notice this as well, although I have not yet uninstalled the program since it does help in preventing any malwares around. But yeah, the program does make the system crawl. Also, when I look at it in the Task Manager, I notice that "swdoctor.exe" (Spyware Doctor) gobbles up a lot of memory, whenever I close the program and goes back to the taskbar swdoctor.exe starts gobbling up memory, it'll go from 3000k to about 60000k

, whic is totally ridiculous. I don't know whether it's having some memory leak or memory not being purged or released at all after being used making my system totally slow. I hope they patch this thing up.

Oh another thing, If you guys are using Windows 2000, and if you turn on the Immunizer On, you'll notice that the icon on the top left corner of your folders disappears for some unknown reason at all. I have contacted Tech. Support on this, and have provided some ScreenShots on what's going on and they're looking into it.

snooze

sourceminer · #8 12-14-2006, 12:41 AM

I have seen several computers with SpyDr installed where this same thing happens, I have just made it a policy that after cleaning is done. I remove the program. What is the deal here? Why is Spy Dr using so much memory and CPU! Auto Scans are turned off, and same with realtime stuff yet it still supprises me that the program still uses so much system resources.

LiquidAir · #9 12-14-2006, 02:45 AM

Heres a thought, get more ram. If you have only 512meg of ram then go into the bank like the highroller you are and spend the whole whopping 70 bucks it'll cost for another 512 and do yourself a favour.

Another reason it's running slow if u have little ram is how many progs do you have running in the background? And how many you DONT know about running in the background? ie hidden progs using mem useage?

Swdoctor is running absolutely fine at 6000k on my pc and everyone elses i know, and if u have at least a gig of ram you'll NEVER notice its running unless its doing a scheduled scan, and if you do, obviously theres something wrong with your ram, progs in the background or other things on your pc.

snooze · #10 12-15-2006, 10:22 AM

RAM? I already have 1GB of RAM, are you kidding? more than enough to run my PC. It's SD that has problems, and I think due to memory leaks that is not being released at all. It just gobbles up memory whenever I close it back to the System Tray making my browser totally slow and it crawls up my other programs especially whenever I open them up. SD will start from 3000k to about 80000K and more...now tell me if that's ok cause I don't think it is. That totally is a memory waste my friend.

snooze