SpyBot Slows Way Down

SpyBot slows way down at CoolWWWSearch.Feat2DLL. Seems as if the marketing blitz for 1.4 had something to do with "Faster", and the first few times I ran 1.4 it seem to blaze right thru. But any more it seems to really drag. And when it's doing the CoolWWWSearch stuff, it slows to a crawl. It's been on CoolWWWSearch.Feat2DLL the past 15 minutes and the counter has only advanced 250. Is that the way it's sposed to work? Any ideas or comments anyone would wish to share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K.

 

Thank You chaslang for considering my question. About 3 weeks ago, when I first suspected an infestation of some sort, I started cleaning. With the cleaning supplies I already had on hand plus a few others I gathered recently under the guideance of a few other MG'ers, my system seems to be blazing along like it's old self. Because of that, it's very easy to jump to the assumption that the system is finally clean. During that process I picked up Process Explorer. It shows my CPU usage, for the spyware scanning alone, during a SpyBot scan at 85%-90%, but an AdAware scan uses 95% - 99%. Working during a SpyBot scan is a little bumpy, but working during an AdAware scan is frustrating. You mentioned fragmentation. When I defrag the system with the MS Disk Defragmenter, does that defrag the registry also? Or is that what registry compactor in Registry Mechanic is for? Will appreciate any comments you wish to send my way. Thanks, K.