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Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT Malwarebytes
From: WayneS <olympus@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:50:41 -0400
At 6/7/2014 02:56 PM, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Just a cautionary note.
>I have been suspicious for a while of hard drive activity that I could see no 
>call for, so in addition to having Avast antivirus running I installed 
>Malwarebytes to check for the sort of malware they specialise in.
>It took more than a day to check my C drive ( which is small) and THREE AND A 
>HALF days to check my main data disk which has less than 200,000 files and has 
>just 168 gb used.
>Just now it started up again despite me (thinking had deferred the next scan 
>for about a month) trying to avoid those excesses. In doing so it greatly 
>paralysed the machine. 
>I have just uninstalled it !!  I can reinstall it if I see a need.
>Brian

It is known that running two anti-virus checkers at the same time can really 
slow things down. The anti-virus could see Malwarebytes as an intrusion, and 
visa versa, and they are both are counter checking each other, which can bring 
a system to a crawl. You need to disable the anti-virus first before running 
Malwarebytes.

Second, as pointed out, failing hardware and disk drive can really slow a 
system down. I'd suggest getting clonezilla and copying the main drive to a 
second drive and boot from that new drive, then put the second drive in as 
auxillary drive and scan it for problems.

WayneS

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