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Hrm. Sorry for the delay, apparently in my absence yesterday my sister's boyfriend took it upon himself to 'fix' the 'problem' . . . by reformatting the system. If nothing else I suppose he was kind enough to grab a trial of the ESET AV instead of using my readily available NIS install CD. Sorry about wasting your time, you can go ahead and close this I guess.

I'm currently away from the affected system, I'll post the logs when I have access.

Hi there. Norton just flagged and removed a .tmp file in my Malwarebytes folder as Adware.Keenval - reading the forums this is seems to be a false positive on Norton's end, but does the removal of this temporary file impact Malwarebyte's ability to function?

I don't believe the drive is encrypted. Though, that the issue seems to have resolved itself. The scan stalls in a number of folders (My Phantasy Star Online 2 installation folder and Windows/Web/...) but after a few minutes resumes scanning as normal. At present all seems to be well. Thanks for responding, and sorry that this turned into something of a waste of time.

Thank you for the response, the problem has actually worsened since posting in that additional database updates now cause a custom scan to stall while scanning specific files regardless of which scanning options are checked; a recommended threat scan still completes without issue, however. I performed the clean remove/reinstallation process though the issue persists. It's rather early in the morning for me, I'll perform the logging step later today and post back with results though I'm under the impression that this may be similar to the bug with 2.0.1 in that the scan decides to stall on the same files/folders. I'm not all too familiar with how malware signatures are checked against the definitions, though that's the only change that has been made.

Sorry, it's a rather peculiar time for me to post. I suppose I should clarify: I updated to 2.0.2 via the automatic update process, it wasn't a clean install (I forget when the update pushed) and from then until this morning I was able to complete full custom scans with rootkit scanning enabled. This morning's update caused the program to become briefly unresponsive though scan logs show that the database version updated succesfully. My assumption is that a new set of definitions were also pushed for the anti-rootkit component which has in turn reintroduced this issue. Sorry again, I couldn't find a way to edit this into my original post.

Greetings, There's not really much to this problem, and it's more an annoyance than a security risk I suppose, but, since upgrading to the newest available definitions (at present v2014.06.06.03) the Malwarebytes custom scan with Rootkit detection enabled idles when scanning img28.png in a Windows folder; pausing and canceling do nothing, the program needs to be forcibly closed. I'm led to believe that this issue was also present in the 2.0.1 release of Malwarebytes, though having read the 2.0.2 release notes and the entries regarding fixing scenarios like this I felt that it may be worth posting.