Donna's SecurityFlash

I use both SpywareBlaster and Spybot S&D, and I am not prepared to "modify" my defence to get IE8 to work properly.

I have uninstalled it(dropped back to IE7)till the issue is resolved.

Good Old Firefox....!!!

C’est Donna qui nous met en garde (en anglais) contre l’association d’IE8 et du module résident de Spybot

Sad, really sad.

Millions of users rely on securing their IE use with Restricted Sites zone list.

Ah well, time to uninstall IE8 and go back to Firefox 3.1b and Chrome 2beta.

At least they work...

That's the damn result of rushing final products.

In my most honest opinion, this version should have been a RC 2.

There are other issues, which I reported here - www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php

Bad move...

I backleveled my PC from IE8 to IE7 because of the slow startup of IE8 compared to IE7.  I am not running Spybot anymore but I did at one time and did immunize my PC.  I looked at my restricted zone list in IE 7 and it is huge.  Is the solution to the slow startup issue simply the removal of the restricted zone list?  I have better spyware tools now then back when so I'm not afraid to do so if this will allow me to run IE8.

I can confirm as well. Use both Spybot & Spywareblaster immunization. Start-up of IE8 is so slow that I had to roll back to IE7. Foruntately, the roll back was seamless.

No problems here: XP Pro with IE8 RC1, Win7 with IE8 BETA. Both work quite well, no slow downs. Spybot S&D 1.6.2 immunization on both.

I had about 35000 sites in the restricted zone.

This worked fine with IE8 RC1 but with the final release it took 1-5 minutes to start IE8.

When I erased the sites with Spybot and ZonedOut, it starts fast. I also had problem with open links in a new tab, it shows a new tab that say "connecting", then it started a new window and the tab in the first window disapeard. That was also fixed by clearing the restricted zone.

My solution:

Keep all SpywareBlaster and Spybot-S&D immunization as is,

pc on and open IE8 (slowwww start),

minimize IE8 to task bar and

IE8 is ready for use all day long.

E-társak, gáz van! There are reports that IE8 will not start fast if user’s system

I like GXJ's method.

Leave all SpyBot stuff as is.

Just open an IE8 window and minimize to the tray.  Just leave it there !

I went from 15-20 seconds in opening IE8 or using it in my HTML to just 4 seconds!!

Don't close that IE8 window !!!

Seems this super - easy - solution should be implemented by MS . . .

after the dll registration tweak www.edbott.com/weblog (which didn't seem to help in my case), I tried this fix in my S & D by undoing the IE immunization entries and thus removing the restricted sites

the 32-bit version of my IE8 still takes ages to open empty tabs, the 64-bit version on the other hand is very fast now (comparable to Chrome) - too bad because most plugins (Flash ie.) don't support the 64-bit version

is this resolved ?

what we gonna do now ?

I bet they did it on purpose to put spyware on us. Beta IE8 did not have this problem only final version has.

Same Eric that laughed at acidtest ?

I do not think so ...

Maybe this will help:

www.dslreports.com/.../r22124619-IE8-InPrivate-filter-from-adblock-plus-list

Although put it on Vista and filter icon changes status to exclamation mark do not see any websites being blocked :-/

I have IE8 and Spybot and am facing the same problemas. I opened IE8 and it took around 10 seconds to be operational, this using Google search as the home page. I then kept the home page open and tested opening several IE8 tabs in a sequence. There is an standard behaviour: the first tab after the home page will always open in one second. The second tab will take 9 seconds to open. The third and fourth tab open in one second. The fifth tab will take 9. The sixth and seventh tabs take one second. The eight tab takes again 9 seconds. There seems then to be a standard like this: two tabs open fast, two tabs open slowly (if we count the first tab + the home page=2 tabs). I closed IE8, restarted the computer, opened IE8, the standard 2:1:2:1... continues. Hopes this detail helps to solve the IE8 problem.

I must be an unusual case here, I use both spybot-sd and spywareblaster.  My IE7 was horridly slow on my XP machine, I figured somehow my IE7 installation was corrupted as IE7 ran faster on Vista.  So decided ill take gamble and install IE8.  IE8 is a LOT faster on my machine, startup is very fast, the first tab doesnt get stuck on connecting like IE7 did, opening new tabs in IE8 still sometimes get stuck on connecting, however when they dont get stuck they are faster than IE7 was.  Its a shame IE still has high resource usage, opening up 10 tabs with google home page uses up 200 meg ram and 4000 handles on my machine which is ridicolous.

Fix IE7 and Fix IE8

I find Spybot-S&D one of the best products on the internet. Relying on it to make my internet a safer experience. I recently moved from IE6>IE8 and was immediately disturbed by IE speed.  Would Microsoft really release a product that did not play well with others? In desperation, I removed IE8 > went back to IE6 > updated to IE7 and I'm still not impressed.

I am prepared to use a non IE browser rather than sacrifice the protection that comes from Spybot-S&D.  

Microsoft XP Pro SP3, Cable DSL

Peoria <dot> helps @ gmail <dot> com (CISSP, ISC2)

Help,

I not only have the slowness with IE 8 but it has affected several other programs as well. Outlook, word etc. Everything is slow. To top it off my 'restore' is not working either, so now my whole PC is hosed since upgrading to IE 8.

I uninstalled and then reinstalled Spybot because I love it. Didn't help.

Do you think just uninstalling IE 8 and going back to IE 7 will fix all the slowness?