As a writer, I find having an integrated dictionary/thesaurus very handy. This makes hunting for le mot juste a much speedier affair than turning all those pages. And so I have WordWeb Pro with the Chambers Dictionary and Thesaurus package.
Alas, if I enter a word that is not in WordWeb's installed dictionaries, WordWeb will hang for a good 15-20 seconds, and will often freeze out with Windows telling me that WordWeb is "not responding". I've had WordWeb running on 3 different PCs, and the same freezing happens on all 3 PCs. The WordWeb team suggests this has something to do with either antivirus software or maybe malware on my computers. Which I just don't undestand, because the problem is rather specific - it happens only when I enter a word not in the dictionaries.
Does anybody else have this or similar problems? If so, is there a fix?