Base Filtering Engine in Vista causing very slow DNS lookups and slow internet performance
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I just figured out the reason for my extremely slow DNS lookups. It is
Base Filtering Engine service in Vista. If I stop this service,
everything runs at blazing speed. As soon as I start it again, when I
try to go to a web site for the first time in that windows login
session, it takes about 10-20 seconds for the "Looking for www.somewhere.com"
message to disappear in Firefox, and after that, the page loading is
relatively slow, too, saying "transferring..".
Similar behavior, if I use IE.
I'm using ZoneAlert, and Windows Firewall is disabled. Also, I have
Spybot Search and Destroy and AVG Antivirus. Disabling these do not
change anything.
If I visit a web site that was visited before, during that windos
login session, I do not see the wait during "Looking for www...".
I have no clue what the problem is, or how to fix it, beyon this
point. Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.
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