IE-SPYAD does not play well with IE8

arkoenig · 03-26-2009, 10:06 AM

IE-SPYAD installs thousands of entries into your "blocked sites" list. Although this is a fine idea in principle, it has a problem in practice: After installing Internet Explorer 8, I found that it took nearly a full minute to launch a blank page.

Until this performance bug in IE8 is fixed, I suggest that you using IE-SPYAD if you want to use IE8. Note that the folks at funkytoad.com agree with this assessment, and recommend against using IE-SPYAD with IE8.

tetonbob · 03-26-2009, 02:11 PM

Hi arkoenig -

Thanks.

I'm never in any rush to add the "new and shiny" from MS.

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Note that the folks at funkytoad.com agree with this assessment, and recommend against using IE-SPYAD with IE8.

http://www.funkytoad.com/index.php?o...4355e73f55ee70

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**Internet Explorer 8 is not behaving well with large quantities of Restricted Sites.
I do not recommend installing IE-SPYADS if you are running IE8.**

This is also reportedly an issue when using Spybot's Immunization feature.

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These are not the fault of these applications, but of how MS and IE8 are handling large numbers of domains in restricted zones, which is what Spybot Immunize and IE-Spyad do, as well as SpywareBlaster.

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread...830#post298830

http://msmvps.com/blogs/donna/archiv...s-enabled.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...lable-now.aspx

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@Donna: We have determined that there is a problem with the SpyBot Search and Destroy "innoculate" feature which puts 10000 domains in the restricted sites list.

*** It's possible that this might be causing the performance problems on startup that some folks are reporting here. ***

http://www.calendarofupdates.com/upd...91&#entry76691

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...r=us&sloc=&p=1

arkoenig · 03-26-2009, 03:26 PM

@Donna says "It's possible" that a large restricted-sites list is causing the performance problems.

I am almost certain of it. The reason is that with SpywareBlaster + IE-SPYAD, it takes IE8 nearly a minute to launch a blank page. After blowing away the registry key with restricted sites and reinstalling SpywareBlaster (but IE-SPYAD), startup takes only a few seconds.

I am guessing that IE8 is caching that registry key on startup, and that it is using a quadratic algorithm to do so.

03-26-2009, 10:06 AM	#1 (permalink)
arkoenig Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 46 OS: Windows XP SP3	IE-SPYAD does not play well with IE8 IE-SPYAD installs thousands of entries into your "blocked sites" list. Although this is a fine idea in principle, it has a problem in practice: After installing Internet Explorer 8, I found that it took nearly a full minute to launch a blank page. Until this performance bug in IE8 is fixed, I suggest that you using IE-SPYAD if you want to use IE8. Note that the folks at funkytoad.com agree with this assessment, and recommend against using IE-SPYAD with IE8.

03-26-2009, 03:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
arkoenig Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 46 OS: Windows XP SP3	Re: IE-SPYAD does not play well with IE8 @Donna says "It's possible" that a large restricted-sites list is causing the performance problems. I am almost certain of it. The reason is that with SpywareBlaster + IE-SPYAD, it takes IE8 nearly a minute to launch a blank page. After blowing away the registry key with restricted sites and reinstalling SpywareBlaster (but IE-SPYAD), startup takes only a few seconds. I am guessing that IE8 is caching that registry key on startup, and that it is using a quadratic algorithm to do so.