Joel, Sounds like a problem I had a while ago. The slowness in "identifying" the hardware was down to a Trojan I had picked up "Virtumonde" "http://www.virtumonde.net/"; allied to something called "SmitFraud".
The AVG and Microsoft software didn't pick them up. Removing both of these resulted in a scan time for updates of 2 minutes as opposed to 2 hours. Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joel N. Fischoff Sent: 09 December 2009 07:15 To: [email protected] Subject: [NF] Replacement for Windows Update? Heya, When I launch Windows Update in Internet Explorer, my machine slows to a crawl. It also takes forever to 'scan' my computer - well over an hour. Can anyone recommend a good replacement for Windows Update, to keep my drivers/software up-to-date? I'm running under XP Home SP3. Thanks in advance, Joel [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/9dea75bb4bb142188ebae7826d299...@develop ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
