speed up!!

Is there a way to speed up the loading/verifying of the databse files? That crap is so slow I'm about to remove Spywareblaster just so I don't have to set and suffer throught that again.

 

Hi there! Sorry you seem to be upset; but if that's running slow it's your PC. Mine takes about 2-3 seconds to load/verify.

 

Hi,

At what particular point does this appear to happen - while the Mozilla/Firefox protection is being loaded/verified? If yes, do you happen to have Netscape installed?

Also, about how long does it take, what version of Windows are you running, and about how fast is your processor?

Thanks,

-Javacool

 

I have 3 machines with XP Professional and 1 with XP Home, NTFS file system, which I believe is the culprit. The cpu ranges from 333mhz to 2.0ghz. Also have one real old 486DX with 98SE on it. Believe it or not, the 486DX and the 333mhz loads the fastest. It happens when loading and updating database. Wouldn't dream of putting Mozilla, Netscape or Firefox on here. Opera for me in that department. Generally takes 20-30 seconds as a guesstimate.

 

I just spent 5+ minutes updating my XP Pro 600mhz machine. Granted, not the fastest box in the world, but to take that long is absolutely rediculous. I am removing this junk and will just leave it up to Adaware and Spybot to remove whatever might get downloaded. This is absurd!!

In fact, first thing tomorrow, I am going to remove it from my other 4 machines. The only thing I've ever seen it block is Target.net, Mediaplex, and some advertising thing, that I have since discovered that if I add those places to my restricted zone, they don't get the chance to add their cookies anyway. So, whatever Adaware finds from now on as far as tracking cookies, I will just add them to my restricted site. Use to like the old version of Spywareblaster, but like most programs, once they get popular and updated to a new and improved version, they turn to ****!!

And, as a by the way, ALL my machines are in tip top running condition. NOTHING takes as long or runs as slow as Spywareblaster.

 

Hi,

I have not heard of SpywareBlaster ever taking that long, especially on a machine of that speed.

If possible, I'd love if you could help me troubleshoot the issue. At what point does it appear to take the longest when loading? While loading or verifying what protection part? (Also, even though you don't have Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape, is the Mozilla/Firefox protection enabled? Or does it say it can't find any Mozilla/Firefox profiles on the problem machine?)

Thanks,

-Javacool

 

Know exactly how you feel sir honorable1nut. Program takes just about as long on my sytem too. Has to be something can be done.

 

Cripe! It just took another full minute just to get it to load to see what part was the slowest. All 3 areas suck, but the restricted site protection is the slowest. The Mozilla/Firefox is none to fast either though. This happens when loading AND verifying. When there is an update and it has to load everything all over again really sucks.

 

*scratch scratch*

Well, let me be the first to say sorry about my last post - I rather assumed it hadda be the machine because it's a rare problem. I shouldn't have done that. However, and please don't take this the wrong way - using words like "crap" and "sucks" just doesn't help to put those who might help in the best mood to do so. If I could help with this I would nonetheless but just please somply accept this as a suggestion from me to you. I do hope Java can solve this asap - and believe me, if anyone can, he can

 

Sorry about the "crap" and the "suck" and any other slang terms I might've used. Will tone it down. It is very frustrating to just sit and here and wait though, especially when I KNOW it doesn't take that long on most other peoples machines. I've installed Spywareblaster on my neighbors machine and 2 of my brothers, that are all slower mhz/ghz wise than 2 of mine and theirs just flys through the whole operation. Out of those 3 "other" machines, none of them are W2k or XP. That's why I thought it was because of the security of the NTFS file system. Once again, sorry.

 

I can certainly understand the frustration, and glad to see another registered member btw

Probably not necessarily a good guess on my part but I wonder if something's slowing fown youe Pcs from reading the registry in general.

 

I couldn't even begin to guess what that might be? Nothing else seems to be going that slow. Adaware, Spybot S&D, Kaspersky AV, Easycleaner all seem to load, update, and run like normal.

 

Can you see about that? Oughta give Java a better idea of what else to check.

 

Hi,

I also have a slowness problem with Spyware Blaster. Perhaps my experience can add more details. My PC is a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 with 512K RAM and 80 GB HD running on Windows XP Home. Some other software loaded are Netscape 7.1, Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, SpywareGuard, Norton Anti-Virus 2003, and Norton Internet Security 2002. Here are the measurements:

- 4.5 minutes to launch Spyware Blaster (see blank dialog box until then)
- 9 minutes to update database once the text is filled for the dialog box
- 30 secs to enable IE protection
- 30 secs to enable Restricted Sites protection
- 10 minutes to enable Mozilla protection

As you can see, it is painfully slow. Part of it may have been my fault. Once, while I wanted to update the Spyware Blaster to latest version, I tried to uninstall the old version. I wasn’t thinking right when the old version seemed to freeze but I went ahead to uninstall while it froze. I loaded the new version and noticed it was slow. I did an uninstall again. I suspect that I left some stuff in the registry due to my error, so I went there to delete everything that had Spyware Blaster labeled. The only thing left after that I found was some mention in the Symantec IP Filter Rules registry on Rule Application Object and Rule description which I left in. Even re-installing it after removing the mentions in the registry did not fix the slowness problem.

As I believe that the product is a very good one, I’m sure that someone will figure out a solution to this.

EAW

 

mines win2k, 650mhz, 192ram and only takes 8 secs to load (less than adobe photoshop etc).... anyway who cares if it takes a while, you only load it to check for updates and it provides great protection from there on. chill out....

 

I use this (win2k/xp) system defragger, it might speed up spywareblaster if its a fragmented registry thats causing it.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml

 

Forgot that one. Says it can't find any Firefox/Mozilla profiles on any of the machines.

As to the one poster who said I only need it to load once for checking for updates, that might not be so bad if I only had 1 machine this was happening on. But it happens on ALL 5 to some degree.

 

Hi,

Subsequent to my May 1 post, I tried the defrag but it didn't improve the speed. Nice try though. Is there a way I can find the conflict that slows down my machine?

Thanks,
EAW

 

Was just checking the thread to see if there had been any updates.

 

Getting to the point of dreading having to do an update to Spywareblaster. Just took 9 minutes to install the 21 updated files from today. Can't believe there aren't more people with this problem as, like I said, it is basically this slow on all 5 of my machines.

 

Just a thought--Do you have SpywareGuard installed?
Whenever I update SpywareBlaster,"Download Protection" in SpywareGuard always has to be re-enabled.This makes me think that Dload Protection is disabled as a part of the update process for SpywareBlaster. Mabe your Dload Protection in SG is still running,perhaps slowing the update to SB.

Just brainstorming here.
Could be WAY offbase!
Rich

 

Sorry. For me anyway. No, don't have Spywareguard. Thanks for taking a crack at it though.

 

Hi all, I don't see any recent updates to this thread. Has the slow down been fixed? I too am having the exact same issue as others mentioned here. I've uninstalled SWB, reinstalled it, and that didn't help. There are no errors at all and it works fine, it just takes minutes to load the databases and to enable protection! The program will open, then the green progress indicator(s) at the bottom will go all the way to the end, then they just stop at 100% and nothing happens nor is anything clickable for minutes. The strange thing, is on my PC I don't get this slowdown. But this is on a customer's new computer of which they haven't even picked up yet that's having the slowdown. It uses the same AV software as mine, as well as the same firewall, XP Pro, updates, etc, etc. It's an AMD 3200+ Barton and an AN7 mobo.
Thanks,
-Clint

 

Issue hasn't been resolved totally yet, but isn't as bad since updating all systems to SP2. Now, on one machine in particular, it only takes 5-6 minutes to update instead of 9+!!