spybot chewing 100% cpu?

Computer seemed fairly sluggish tonight. P4, 2.66, 512. Xp Sp2 + NAV + adaware + Spybot...all up to date.

Ran all the scans and came up clean (even an online Panda AV and Online Trojan scan)...clean.

Mainly the cpu seemed to be running quite high. With only Wilders open in Firefox and scanning with spybot at the same time cpu was 100%........why is this so high ?

Any advice would be appreciated?
Thanks,
Buck

 

Hi Buck

This is normal, lots of scanners use the cpu close to 100%, Kaspersky and TDS-3 does it too.

Regards

 

Yeah thanks...I got TDS running now and using plenty of CPU....but I still think the whole system seems a lot more sluggish than it was during the day.
I emptied prefetch and will defrag later..but I defrag regularly anyway...so it probably won't make much difference.
Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Buck

 

maybe some spyware, if you want you can post your hjt log here and after you follow the manual I am sure they would be glad to help you out.

http://spyblocker-software.com/IPB/index.php?showforum=20

 

Hello BigBuck,

What have you got the Scan Priority set at in Settings?

Regards - Charles

 

Set to Normal.

 

Thanks anyway guys..........did a fresh reinstall this afternoon.......if that don't fix it, nothing will.
It's good to give the ol' system a good clean out.

Consider this one closed,

Thanks,

Buck.