SpyBot S&D 2

[#1]

Anyone else 'upgraded' to this?
Installed it yesterday and have found it to be extremely slow, overcomplicated and full of stuff I have no idea what to do with as it is not intuitive in the least.
Will probably revert back to 1.6.

[#2]

worth a read http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=336246
and this review http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412372,00.asp

[#3]

@mav:- thanks for the heads-up, saves effort looking
to quote OJ link

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In testing, it proved almost 100 percent ineffective.

I'm happy with 1.6

[#4]

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I'm happy with 1.6

And that is what I'm returning to
Thanks for the links OJ.

[#5]

I gave up on Spybot 1.6 some years ago because I found it too slow, so I hate to think what the new version is like.  I particularly hate the way it sometimes finds it cannot remove certain entries so asks to run again on start-up but when it does this it runs the complete scan again instead of going straight to deal with those entries it found the first time round.  If you want a quick but thorough spyware scan i would recommend either SuperAntiSpyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ (free edition) or Malwarebytes http://www.malwarebytes.org/ (free version).   

[#6]

I've never suffered with the problems you've mentioned, RR, with version 1.6. Maybe it was fast because of the SSD.
As for running again after start-up it simply completes what it couldn't do prior to reboot without doing a full scan once more.