Anti-virus settings can contribute as well, as can spywareguard scanning
(its acting alot like av too). Processes that are running may not directly
interfere but windows may have to swap memory out and that will. It depends
on how much ram you have and what you are running.

"George Weischadle" <look@signature_to.reply> wrote in message
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> 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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