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Could very well be that Spybot is the cause of the problem, but thought i would just report it here in case others were having the same problems

CCleaner has never been an issue for me either and i use the 32bit version of firefox as the 64 bit version has always been terrible. Firefox's memory usage scales in line with the amount of ram you have in your system. I have 16gb and that is why i go between 200 - 300mb, dependent n the amount of tabs i have open. I never had the problem on ESS v6 , even with HIPS/AMS turned off i still have the problems on v7. Slight conflict between v7 and firefox seems plausible as the cause of the slowdowns.

Have noticed when installing other security tools when using v7 of ESS, that there appears to be an issue with the firewall. When installing Spybot S&D (spybotsd-2.1.21-SR2), pop up for firewall appears and when you tick the box to remember your choice and press ALLOW , gives the message "Failed to read firewall configuration". Cant remember offhand what the other applications were but they are all display the same message when the firewall is on INTERACTIVE mode, i cant say if this applies to automatic mode as i don't use that option. Might have been hitman pro that gave the same error "Failed to read firewall configuraton" Also spybot fails to load one of its services at the same time when installing

I too experience the issues with webpages not loading and have to use the refresh button at times but was unsure as to what the problem was, as i use firefox 24 beta and thought that it may have been related to a issue within the beta of firefox. Internet explorer 10 seems to be unaffected though. The memory footprint of firefox is crazy nowadays and its nothing that ess is causing, but maybe a browser using 200mb of ram combined with AMS is what's causing the slowdowns and webpage loading times. IE10 by comparison uses 8.5mb. Long gone are the days when firefox was a lean & fast browser.

Its all been fixed, delete the thread

Good news that you managed to find the problem , and as protection was not reduced (virus defs still updated) and it never affected the performance of the machine it was running on then it was only a minor bug. Spinning tray icon is not really a prob if you hide them

Problem does not seem to be with the application update as that is what is looping with me but my settings have always been.... Ask before downloading program components, also i don't have auto check for program updates ticked. Prior to the problem occurring this evening Win7 X64

Removed ver 6, and installed v7 clean. Like the new part within the firewall that shows the detection date of the app you are defining the rule for . All seems to be running fine and appears to be of similar performance to v6. Nice look to the tray icon too