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Spyware Doctor

by eky0236 Jul 22, 2007 1:06AM PDT

Could someone tell me why Spyware Doctor keeps trying to start & restart for about four minutes on boot up, I have XP home on an E4026 80gb hard drive, Machine, Mcaffee anti virus, windows defender, A2 Squared, windows firewall,

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Probably A Conflict...

by Grif Thomas Former Forum moderator Jul 22, 2007 5:14AM PDT

If Spyware Doctor and Windows Defender are both loading at the same time during startup, it can cause issues. If you also have other antispyware tools like McAfee's antispyware and A squared loading, you've got issues.. You can still keep them all installed but try running only one of them at startup in "realtime". Use the others to run manual scans occasionally.

Hope this helps.

Grif

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Syware Doctor

by eky0236 Jul 22, 2007 6:22PM PDT

Many thanks for the info Grif i think it may be windows defender, Will let you know.

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