I have been using SWB for a decade with no issues, periodically updating the database and main program i had been using v6, but about 2 months ago, i tried to start the program and it took 30+ minutes to load and display the screen - it was successful updating, but no matter what i do, it takes well over 30 minutes to load - i tried downloading earlier versions and they all do the same thing, always maxing out my Win7x64 CPU at 13% and not displaying - except v4.6 or earlier - THEY load normally (within seconds) but their database won't update - any ideas?
any ideas on why? of course i checked if there were any new programs that might have been causing a conflict but i could not determine any and i also completely uninstalled v6 and then re-installed it - that didn't work but it must have something to do with the code, as v4.6 (or earlier versions, even just installing right over v6), launch perfectly - just as v6 used to clearly something changed on my system, but i have no idea what - i am hoping the diagnostic of v4.6 and below working fine might suggest where to look, but i don't know the SWB program differences to make use of that info any help/ideas are much appreciated!
Hi @swb108, I don't think that I have that problem on Win7 Pro 64. I'm afraid that I cannot be of much help here; sorry.
Hi swb108, The behavior you are describing makes me suspicious that an anti-virus or other security tool on your system may have had an update and is misbehaving. (Such tools often have "real-time" protection that intercepts the launching of new processes, and if they have a bug they might end up spending a long time blocking the launch of SpywareBlaster while they do various heuristic scanning type things on its executable.) What other anti-virus / anti-malware / security suites / firewalls, etc do you have installed on your system? Have you tried adding the main "spywareblaster.exe" (likely in "Program Files (x86)\SpywareBlaster" on your system if you kept the default install location) to any of those tools' "exclusion lists"? (Or you can try temporarily disabling each tool and launching SpywareBlaster until you can identify which, if any, might be contributing.)
thanks JC! I don't run any TSR (ie., "always on") antivirus or antispyware i have a number of on-demand AV programs that i run if i want to check the safety of a file or do a system scan (eg., malwarebytes, mcafee on-demand, superantispyware, clamwin, swb, spybot s&d, sophos, stinger, virustotal, Jotti, etc), but nothing at all running during SWB launch that would cause the slowdown in fact, i have the minimal set of MSFT (not windows defender or security) and third party services (nothing new installed) that has allowed for smooth operation over the last ~14 years my question about the build differences remains, however: what about SWB versions 4.6 or earlier allow it to immediately open, but cause every later build (v4.7+) to max out my cpu (13% for win7 pro x64) until it finally opens 30-45 minutes after launch? what is different with 4.7 vs 4.6? i am hoping that understanding that better may lead me to the specific problem & solution thank you again!
sorry to bump this, just in case it was missed: my question is about the build differences: what changes were made to SWB v5 (and upward, that were not there in v4.6 or earlier) that might cause v5's processes to max out my cpu (13% for win7 pro x64) until it finally opens 30-45 minutes after launch? also, even if i just try to install v5 over v4.6, it doesn't finish installing, but maxes out the spyware blaster process and if i then kill the maxing process, v5 is installed, but won't launch similarly, once v5 is installed, if i try to install v5 over the same v5, it immediately completes (status bar at 100% green) but freezes at the end of installation (the installation window freezes), while having launched the same 4 installation processes (as before) if i then again end the maxing-out process it closes the 2 spywareblaster.exe processes, leaving just the 2 spywareblastersetup50.exe files and an unfrozen new setup launch screen which if i then click finish (with launch checked), the 2 setup processes close, and are replaced by 2 spywareblaster.exe processes, one of which maxes out process CPU (at 13%) and does not open the program for 30-45mins as far as differences between versions, i see that there is a new feature listed for v6 https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...dge-brave-vivaldi-windows-10-and-more.431613/ but i could not find a new feature list set for v5, in case the new features held any clues vs v4.6 ideally, understanding changes in the coding that could possibly cause prolonged high CPU process usage in v5 and above might be more instructive to the problem and solution thank you again JC!
anything to share on this? What changes were made to SWB v5 (and upward, that were not there in v4.6 or earlier) that might cause v5's processes to max out my cpu (13% for win7 pro x64) until it finally opens 30-45 minutes after launch?
hi again Javacool in the event that sharing details on the differences between SWB v5 and the previous v4.6, in order to help me determine the cause of the problem on my system (in all versions from v5 and after), would you instead be willing to allow v4.6 to still get updates? (...since v4.6 and earlier works perfectly for me, except that it doesn't update) thanks again!
