Richard,
Nice find.. Wtg!!
Just a few points on Spybot to echo your comments and put a few more items
in perspective.
1. In a default install with all current definition updates through 5/15/07
retrieved Spybot will protect against ~15,100 items.
2. The default install prior to clicking on 'immunize' does not add any
sites to the restricted zone.
3. Immunization will add as of 5/15/07 ~3250 sites to the restricted
zone(ref. Sandi blog per WTC' s post. Where the other 9,000 come from..I am
not sure. I've been running AdAware, SuperSpyware, Spybot, and (don't
shudder) NSW2006/NAV with Internet Worm Protection without issue in an XP
environment and none of them have found anything beyond the routine
non-malware finds(cookies, recent run, etc) in years. My surfing is
controlled and limited. On this Vista machine, strictly N360 resident and
Defender, Spybot and CrapCleaner as non resident supplements.
4. Spybot as a tool can still be run without immunization especially if its
used as an non-background supplementary 'layered' tool to Vista's Windows
Defender and a capable AV programI(I currently use Kaspersky and N360 - one
on each machine).
*** 5.*** If one immunizes with Spybot, and here's another oddity. The
Windows Mail delay appears to be alleviated by opening the Windows Calendar
within Windows Mail.
- you may or may not recall a few months ago I reported in the
msft.public.vista.mail group the Windows Mail delay 'weirdly' being improved
after the Calendar was opened in Windows Mail.
- it is still unclear why the Calendar has any impact whatsoever on
Windows Mail performance, though its positive result has been verified by at
last four other people(not sure if Spybot was installed on those systems-
I'll ask in the futureg) in these forums and a few more in two other
private forums. The quantity of those results may not be statistically
significant, but regardless are positive findings.

Fortunately, I did not experience the KB931768 issue on two Vista Ultimate
systems, nor on the one XP machine running IE7(the other two run IE6) with
the TIF files located on a stand alone partition on a different ide
drive(slave), thus can't offer any options on that subject(lol..after
reading all the problems, I keep clicking and waiting for Armageddon, and as
insurance increased my image frequencyg)

Nice find, and good luck on the rebuild and much needed shut-eye.

...winston


"Richard Urban" wrote in message
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I had posted in a couple of various threads that I was also affected by
this update (KB931768) under both Vista and Windows XP. Under Vista,
Windows Mail had become so slow as to be almost impossible to use. Clicking
on a post in the news groups took about 2-4 seconds to show the text in the
bottom. Replying to a post also took about 2-4 seconds to bring us a usable
reply window. Shutting down Windows Mail took the same 2-4 seconds.
snip
I then chose to ***immunize*** within Spybot, which you have to do to
apply the updates for the program.

I again started Windows Mail.

*****BANG***** *****BOOM***** *****BAM*****