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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