41 Hours and over 2 million files later...

[jaredean]

I've never seen this happen. I have an office computer that i'm scanning and it honestly doesn't have very many programs on it at all. I've used Malwarebytes for years now and it usually only takes an hour or so to do a full scan, but i started a scan on this computer a couple of days ago and it is still running...so far here is what it shows:

Objects scanned: 2,278,682

Objects detected: 2

Scan Type: Full (C:\I)

Time Elapsed: 41 hour(s)

Some red flags are that i cleared out the internet cache before doing the scan and it seems like it took several hours on the directory:

c:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files

I don't want to stop the scan becuase it has gone this long and i keep thinking (as i leave overnight) that it will finish at any moment...but how in the world does this computer that is only about a year old and is only used for processing internet orders and mail, how does it have over 2 million files on it???

jared

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