I run this on a lot of computers. On some machines, spybot takes about
2 minutes. On others, it takes about 25 minutes. Both would have about
the same CPU speed and HD data. Not sure why there is such a huge
difference in scan times, but it's nothing to worry about.

George Weischadle wrote:

> It takes almost 30 mins for Spybot S&D to scan my hard drive (12 GB of data
> on the drive, XP Home O/S). By contrast, Ad-Aware runs in around 3-4 mins.
> Both are updated regularly. Does it sound like there's something on my
> computer interfering with Spybot that I haven't been able to detect?
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