[Malwarebytes Services Causing Slow PC]

5 hours ago, exile360 said:

While I don't have any extensive details about Emsisoft, I checked their site and they don't seem to include any comprehensive exploit protection like Malwarebytes does for one.  I'm also not sure if they have anything that would be an acceptable substitute for the recently implemented signature-less anomalous file detection capabilities in Malwarebytes, which use machine learning and advanced heuristics algorithms rather than more traditional threat signatures to detect new and unknown malware (0-hour/0-day threats).  Obviously there are going to be differences between the other layers as well, even the ones which cover similar areas/threats etc. but there's no real way of comparing them in-depth without detailed technical knowledge of what's going on under the hood (proprietary information only the Developers of each product would know).

I also don't know what kind of self-protection/self-defense mechanism(s) they have, if any, though I do know that the self-protection driver in Malwarebytes, which is based on their former Chameleon technology, is quite robust.

As far as general protection from more common threats goes, while they may not have the same level of heuristics as Malwarebytes, they do at least use 2 AV engines according to their site, and while that's no guarantee against newer/unknown threats, it does mean that you should at least get the same or better protection that you got with Norton.

I'm also not certain about their policy on PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Programs) and whether or not they are as aggressive against them as Malwarebytes; one of the areas Malwarebytes has been a leader in the entire industry in over the past few years with regards to their intolerance of PUPs.  That said, PUPs aren't malware though, so that may not be as important to you as other areas of coverage.

With all of that said, you might consider giving the new beta of Malwarebytes a try to see if it resolves the problem.  I just asked another use to try it who was having similar performance issues and so far at least it seems to have corrected the issues.  If you wish to try it, open Malwarebytes and navigate to Settings>Application then scroll down to where it says Beta Application Updates and turn on the option beneath it to receive beta updates, then scroll back up to the top and click the Install Application Updates button and allow it to download/install the new version, then reboot if prompted to complete the installation process and test and see how it goes.  Hopefully it will correct the issues for you as well.

Updated to beta version 3.5.0. Turned ransomware protection back on. Same thing is happening. Chrome is slow, task manager slow to open = sluggish computer. 

I turn ransomware back off, and the computer is back to normal. 

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22 minutes ago, digmorcrusher said:

Emsisoft is an anti-virus, you cannot use it alongside Norton.

I understand. I will uninstall Norton if I go with them.

Any thoughts on Emsisoft? I see they scan real-time and block malware. Do you know how the protection of malware is compared to Malwarebytes? 

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3 minutes ago, Cody712 said:

Malwarebytes asked me to install a new update and restarted my pc. Now everything is really slow also, it must have been that new update. I am doing a system restore to see if this works, the pc is unusable right now.

You could just uninstall Malwarebytes. That seems to fix the problem for me. 

 

If dcollins’ steps above don’t rectify the problem, I’m probably just going to try Emsisoft and switch products. I don’t have time for stuff to be broken like this as I work two jobs and am very busy. 

 

We shall see...

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Logs attached.

After re-installing Malwarebytes, it's good for a little bit after the immediate re-install. However, I came back to my computer hours later to check on this thread, and my computer is sluggish again because of Malwarebytes. Chrome took around 8-10 seconds to open, task manager took longer than normal, etc. 

This is a FAST computer too. it's gaming rig. Intel I7-8700K, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Samsung EVO 960 M.2 SSD, 1080 GTX TI. I know Malwarebytes is the culprit, because as soon as I uninstall Malwarebytes, the problem is fixed.

Hopefully the logs will tell what is going on. Thank you.

mbst-grab-results.zip

[Malwarebytes Services Causing Slow PC]

Not sure what happened, but Malwarebytes is causing my computer to be extremely slow. I click on Chrome, and it takes 10-15 seconds to open. Task manager takes 5-10 seconds to open, etc. My entire computer just feels sluggish.

I pay for Malwarebytes Premium and I'm running the latest version 3.4.5. I did a complete uninstall and re-install. The symptoms come back after installing Malwarebytes.  

I found out from others online that Malwabytes Services is causing the issue. So I uninstalled Malwarebytes again, and my computer is back to excellent performance. 

I'm NOT showing that Malwarebytes is utilizing high RAM or CPU (around 179MB of RAM and less than 3% CPU).

So do we know what is going on and what is causing this? Did Malwarebytes push out an update that is causing computers to be crippled?