MikeHarrison

Many thanks, Alvarnell. You've been extremely helpful, and I appreciate you taking the time.

Is anyone able to spell out the feature differences between Malwarebytes and ClamXav. Specifically, what types of things each one scans for and protects against; what locations (drives, volumes, folders, etc) they scan; any user options and, most importantly, whether the two apps are compatible with each other and can run simultaneously and safely in the background. Thanks.

After leaving it running since mentioning it in my last post, it was still hung at VSearch after almost 2.5 hours, so I just now force-quit it and then re-launched. It did not hang at VSearch this time. I'll see what happens later tonight. Thanks, Thomas.

Thanks, Thomas. I'm running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.2.4 on OS 10.8.5. I understand how the number of files to be scanned can make a difference in the scan time, but there was very little that changed on my computer since Tuesday, when the scan for VSearch took only seconds. Could something have changed significantly in the signatures that is causing the scan to run much longer? It's not the scan time alone that had me concerned: I just happened to visit a website on Wednesday that displayed a highly suspicious dialog box that clearly would've gotten me into trouble had I clicked on it. Instead, I immediately left the page without clicking anything. My computer exhibited no troublesome behavior after that. But then, when I launched Malwarebytes Anti-Malware before shutting down (as I do every night), and it became "stuck" on Adware.VSearch, I immediately remembered that website I'd visited earlier and thought that perhaps something had been downloaded even though I clicked nothing and it was now causing trouble with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. I launched Malwarebytes Anti-Malware before beginning to write this, taking note that the scan could take longer than 15 seconds or more and, as of this moment, the scan has been working on Adware.VSearch for 30 minutes. My Mac's Console has been reporting, every thirty seconds: "Nov 3 09:38:48 Mikes-Mac-mini.local Malwarebytes Anti-Malware[586]: replyServiceStateOK" Please advise. Thanks.

Additionally, clicking Cancel does nothing. I have to Force Quit.

I must also report that the scanning hangs at Adware.VSearch beginning after tonight's update (it worked fine yesterday). Please advise.