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Couple of questions I need answered
Name: Sabertooth Date: February 2, 2004 at 15:44:56 Pacific OS: XP SP2 v.2055 CPU/Ram: Duron/768MB
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0. Is it just my PC or does everybody else go through Spybot S&D's CPU crunch. I usually just let it run in a completely minimized window, but I noticed it hogs my CPU with >90% usage.
1. The second issue is I installed Norton's Goback from my NSW '04 CD but I only want it to protect my 1st partition on my primary master drive (C:), I have not been able to achieve this because it defaults to protecting both partitions on the drive. The reason I do not like this is simple if something happens and I have to revert to an earlier time, I want to just do it on C: and not my data backup drive so that I do not lose newly saved data.
Name: J A Dean Date: February 2, 2004 at 15:59:11 Pacific
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Saber
I just ran Spybot on one of my old workstations (P4 1.8/512Mb) - CPU usage fluctuated between 91 and 97%.
I can't help you with the Goback issue as I will not allow any Norton software on my network.
Regards
JAD
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:02:21 Pacific
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Sabertooth -
1. You're not alone. The cpu usage on this PC fluctuated between 84-94% when running Spybot S&D as a standalone. When it's done, the cpu usage fell to zero.
2. Don't have an answer since I don't use NSW 2004
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:06:06 Pacific
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Saber and Dean -
What about testing Ad-aware? Should we play it for comparison with Spybot CPU usage?
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Response Number 4
Name: J A Dean Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:07:46 Pacific
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here goes then....
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Response Number 5
Name: J A Dean Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:09:56 Pacific
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41 - 72%
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Response Number 6
Name: XpUser Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:13:15 Pacific
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Mine's 22-90% but the fluctation's much wilder than Syybot - did you notice that too?
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Response Number 7
Name: J A Dean Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:15:28 Pacific
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yes Spybot stays in a tight range - Adaware yoyos wildly
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Response Number 8
Name: XpUser Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:22:04 Pacific
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Interesting!! Anyway I think both Ad-Aware and Spybot should be ran alone, one at a time
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Response Number 9
Name: J A Dean Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:22:05 Pacific
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..NSTL eat your heart out...
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Response Number 10
Name: XpUser Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:22:55 Pacific
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Huh what the heck is NSTL ? Today's not my best day :-)
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Response Number 11
Name: Sokko Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:22:56 Pacific
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Dare I ask why you're even using Spybot while doing other things? Scanning for spyware is much like disk defragmenting; it's a computer-intensive activity that is best left alone until it's done. Heck, it only takes about 10 minutes on my 120GB drive, but then again some people have no patience.
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Response Number 12
Name: J A Dean Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:26:27 Pacific
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who said we were doing other things?
XPUser look here: http://www.nstl.com/
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Response Number 13
Name: XpUser Date: February 2, 2004 at 16:30:50 Pacific
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Dean - Thanxs!
Sokko - The HD size is irrelevant. Spybot scan only certain directories.
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Response Number 14
Name: Sabertooth Date: February 3, 2004 at 08:06:33 Pacific
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Thanks for the feedback guys..
I am equally happy to see that you have given me the honor of giving the 14th response...
Sokko,
Disk Defrag is NOT much like Scumware scan, even the defrag you talk about varies in CPU usge depending on the defrag tool used.
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