[dba-Tech] SpySweeper

I was actually referring to the real time scanner part of SpySweeper. 

I also run CounterSpy and PestPatrol and have been testing Ewido for a
couple of months now. (All on separate machines - of course!)

Although they all have moments of resource hoggishness (?) SpySweeper seems
to rule the mud hole on that aspect. Just check the process list and see how
much RAM/CPU it is using on a regular basis. 

Typically on my P4 (Pest Patrol) & P3 (CounterSpy) the RAM use is about
25MBs (for the real time spyware component and the overall system's CPU
usage is about 3% when not running any end user or developer apps. I don't
have a SpySweeper PC running right now but as I recall it was quite a bit
higher on average.

Sometimes when things are running a bit slow I check this and the usage is
way up. It usually goes down after a couple of minutes though so its either
scanning something or having a hissy fit ;o)

BTW so far Ewido seems to be fairly easy on the system resources, but I'm
not completely finished with my eval on it.

I'm also testing CounterSpy v2.0 Beta right now.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda

Yeah, I tend to run all my scans on a Sunday night - Spybot, Ad-Aware,
SpySweeper and the Zonealarm AS, and they do hog all my cpu time. I run
Spybot and Adaware first, then the other two when they're done. Can't do any
more than that or it all goes horribly wrong. For reference, I'm using a 14
month old P4 3.2 HT with 2gb RAM...