Downloaded IE8 from WINDOWS UPDATE hoping some of the ills had been cured since my other two downloads earlier. Wrong! It is ever sooooooo slow out of the gate and seems also to reduce system speed. Installed it on both my pc and laptop. After becoming aware of the slow load times I did a lot of searching on the web and found several comments stating that SPYBOT and SPYWAREBLASTER were detrimental to the speed of IE8. Well, don't mess with it because it hardly makes any difference. Still have IE8 on my laptop, uninstalled both SPYBOT and SPYWAREBLASTER, cleared the restricted sites by resetting IE and from the moment I hit the IE button to a loaded page with one tab it takes 20 seconds, FIREFOX with 6 tabs takes about 4-5 seconds. On the pc which I reverted back to IE7 with SPYBOT and SPYWAREBLASTER still running I get a loaded one tab page in about 1-2 seconds and the same FIREFOX page with 6 tabs in 3-4 seconds. Mind you once IE8 is loaded it is indeed fast but overall system performance is noticeably reduced. IE8 will stay on the laptop as a 'tester'; I'm hoping MS will come up with a fix soon as I only have COMODO and AVAST running for security; don't rightly know yet what to use in lieu of SPYBOT and SPYWAREBLASTER.