betty889125@hotrmailnospam.org wrote:
> I've noticed that Superantispyware takes an awful long time to scan the
> registry - especially if you have the MVPS HOSTS file and IE-Spyad loaded!
>
> So far it's been scanning for 30 minutes and still hasn't completed the
> restricted domains that the HOSTS (or IE-Spyad) file has added.
>
>
> I'm not complaining because if the signature file of Superantispyware
> contains enough pernicious strings to check, we're all that much safer.
> Is there any way to exclude the key which contains all the domains that
> have been added by MVPS or IE-Spyad?
>
> (Just checked again - it finally finished that portion of the registry at
> the 31 minute mark. I still have the rest of the registry and my OS
> partition to go!).

It's actually because of the ZoneMapDomains key - IE-SpyAd and
SpywareBlaster add thousands of restricted domains - we may add an
option to skip the ZoneMap Domains, but then if something adds a
harmful domain as "trusted" or a good domain as "restricted" we would
not detect it.

Nick Skrepetos
SUPERAntiSpyware.com
http://www.superantispyware.com