Latest version of Spysweeper slow to unusable?

[Jim Higgins]

"David Arnstein" <arnstein@panix.com> wrote in message
news:es9mal$394$1@reader2.panix.com...
>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.

[comajorr]

Jim Higgins wrote:
> "David Arnstein" <arnstein@panix.com> wrote in message
> news:es9mal$394$1@reader2.panix.com...
>> 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.
>
>
I'm also using spysweeper 5.3.1 with no problems.