POLL: How LONG does it take to run on YOUR system with what results?
Here is what I get using the microsoft spyware beta1 on a 2 Ghz
windows xp sp2 IBM A31p laptop with 1 GB memory & 500 bytes L1 cache.
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Microsoft AntiSpyware Spyware Scan Results
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Scan Summary
Spyware threats detected: 0
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Memory processes scanned: 945
Memory processes infected: 0
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Files scanned: 24196
Spyware files infected: 0
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Registry keys scanned: 9837
Registry keys infected: 0
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Total scan time: 57 min 33 secs
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What do YOU get (how long does it take you on what machine)?

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I should note there are 160 Gbytes (2 x 80 GB Toshiba hard drives)
on this old 2Ghz IBM A31p laptop (if it matters).
Does it take YOU an hour to run a full spyware scan on your PC?

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Orak Listalavostok wrote:
> POLL: How LONG does it take to run on YOUR system with what results?
> Here is what I get using the microsoft spyware beta1 on a 2 Ghz
> Windows XP sp2 IBM A31p laptop with 1 GB memory & 500 bytes L1 cache.
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> What do YOU get (how long does it take you on what machine)?

About 4.5 mins to scan 3 drives totalling 140gb of data in 34191 files on a
P4 2.8GHZ machine with 1gb of ram.

It doesn't surprise me that your time was a lot slower - laptop hard drives
are usually much slower performers than desktop ones and you can't get much
more disk intensive than a process that scans every file on the disk...

Anyway, would we rather the scan run quickly or would we rather it ran
accurately?

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Orak Listalavostok wrote:
> POLL: How LONG does it take to run on YOUR system with what results?
> Here is what I get using the microsoft spyware beta1 on a 2 Ghz
> Windows XP sp2 IBM A31p laptop with 1 GB memory & 500 bytes L1 cache.
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> Microsoft AntiSpyware Spyware Scan Results
> ---
> Scan Summary
> Spyware threats detected: 0
> ---
> Memory processes scanned: 945
> Memory processes infected: 0
> ---
> Files scanned: 24196
> Spyware files infected: 0
> ---
> Registry keys scanned: 9837
> Registry keys infected: 0
> ---
> Total scan time: 57 min 33 secs
> ---
>
> What do YOU get (how long does it take you on what machine)?
>

Mine sure doesn't take that long. I have it installed on a Compaq P4
with a 2.54 Ghz processor and 10GB of data. It scans 23,000 files in
less than 5 minutes.

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Spyware Scan Details
Start Date: 1/7/2005 10:46:15 AM
End Date: 1/7/2005 11:00:28 AM
Total Time: 14 mins 13 secs

Just a 40GB laptop HD...P4 2.66, 1GB ram.

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Below is  my summary (I did not record the memory processes). My system is
Dell Dimension 8200 1.9 Ghz Windows XP Home with 512 Mb memory

This is my first time running the MS beta product.  Prior to running it I
checked for updates to Spybot and ran it.  The MS product still found a lot
the Spybot missed or ???.  After MS Anitspyware I ran Norton System Works
Check-Up -- it found no problems with the registers or ...



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Dick


Th
"lee" <lth@invalid.net> wrote in message
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> Orak Listalavostok wrote: 
>
> Mine sure doesn't take that long. I have it installed on a Compaq P4 with
> a 2.54 Ghz processor and 10GB of data. It scans 23,000 files in less than
> 5 minutes.

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The MS Antisypware ran at 2:00 am last night -- below are the results of the
second execution.  Net = no problems found and ran in about 50% of the time.

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"Dick Harrison" <RLHar@att.net> wrote in message
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> Below is  my summary (I did not record the memory processes). My system is
> Dell Dimension 8200 1.9 Ghz Windows XP Home with 512 Mb memory
>
> This is my first time running the MS beta product.  Prior to running it I
> checked for updates to Spybot and ran it.  The MS product still found a
> lot the Spybot missed or ???.  After MS Anitspyware I ran Norton System
> Works Check-Up -- it found no problems with the registers or ...
>
>
>
> Microsoft AntiSpyware Spyware Scan Results 
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> 
>
> Dick
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>
> Th
> "lee" <lth@invalid.net> wrote in message
> news:ZEXEd.5$TP6.2@dfw-service2.ext.ray.com... 
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