"David Arnstein" <arnstein@panix.com> wrote in message
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>I recently upgraded to Spysweeper 5.3.1 and I find that it is now
> terribly slow. A full sweep would take (guessing here) over 24 hours
> on my peecee.
>
> During a sweep, Windows Task Manager shows low CPU usage. Disk drives
> are mostly idle too.
>
> I filed a trouble ticket with Webroot, but I have received no updates
> after two days. Typical for consumer software, I guess.
>
> Is anyone else having this problem?
> --
> David Arnstein (00)
> arnstein+usenet@pobox.com {{ }}
> ^^

I have the same version and a custom sweep, including root kits, completes
in about 15 minutes. I'm running a Dell 8300 2.8GHz 1GB RAM XP Home SP2.