Yes…I said day 1. There are 2 videos here. The first is a spoof…I was trying to figure out what song was on in the background…whoops. The second one is just a very brief intro to Spyware Doctor with Antivirus 2010. It’s brief because the file scanner had run for almost an hour and was only at 6% on a box that only has Vista loaded…insanely slow man.
Da Spoof!
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImZIy57YxEg
Spyware Doctor with Antivirus 2010 – Day 1
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9pAWyX4xOY
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When did you start doing reviews while drunk?
Nice touch.
snorks
I think that your BOX with VISTA is the cause of the slow scan.
Vista SO have zilion bugs when handling a larger nunbers of files.
The only way to be “imparcial” would be to:
Have your VISTA BOX with ALL Microsoft Patchs
or
Do a comparison with others AVs in this BOX and in a similar XP box.
I think that your VISTA BOX is causing the slow scan time speed, not the antivirus.
Windows Vista has several bugs when it is working with several files… the only way to be sure is be Updating yor Vista BOX with SP2 and all patchs.
good vid matt but i cant belive that spy doctor whith av faild so badly pctools has been so good for so long and now its totaly rubbish
btw avg 9.0 has fixed its installer and is ment to be really good
@Marcos N. Pesic
The vista box could be part of the problem (it is more likely the VM environment that is causing the problem), but spyware doctor is also very slow anyway. Patching vista would not make Spyware Doctor scan faster though.
@123zap
I did not tested SpywareDoctor with a patched Windows Vista.
But I know that the “unpatched” version of it is very slow when working with a big amount of files (like a antivirus scan).
SpywareDoctor may be slow… but I am pretty sure that it is not THAT slow.
So I really think that the VISTA BOX will be a problem.
@Marcos N. Pesic
Again, vista patches do not reduce the amount of files vista needs, they just make vista work better.
I think I am still going with my idea about vista in the VM being the problem. Virtual machines have a way of slowing everything down.
@123zap
Windows Vista without patches have one know bug when handling larger number of files.
In some ocassions moving 5MB could require more than 1 minute.
It´s not about “how many files” or “how large” the system is… but it´s a know bug that was patched.
It may, or may not be the case it the spyware doctor.
Altough you are right to… maybe vmware box is causing some slowdown.
I think bouth are causing damage to antivirus scan speed.