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I recently did a scan of my WIN 7 machine & encountered what appears to be a circular loop that causes MALWAREBYTES to either slow down or repeat itself. I let the scan run for 40 hours & it never concluded so I aborted.

It was scanning a directory from National Instruments for LabView 2009. The directory is vi.lib/addons. Is there any known issue on this?

Should I uninstall & then reinstall MALWAREBYTES? My version is 1.41.

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Attached are some results. How do I attach or upload an image?

You would see the hierarchy of the Control Design directory & there is only 1 _Model Conversions subdirectory. Note that the file CD Predictive Observer_ModelSelect.vi is within the _Inplementation subdirectory. It seems to me that MALWAREBYTES is chasing subVI’s within primary VI’s. If this is indeed the case since many primary VI’s have common subVI’s then superfluous iterations will be encountered in these scans & run times could balloon to unpredictable scales.

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I cannot believe I cannot attach a file to a REPLY in my earlier posting concerning this issue, but can by starting a new topic. Is there something wrong about this?

See the screenshot. You can see the hierarchy of the Control Design directory & there is only 1 _Model Conversions subdirectory. Note that the file CD Predictive Observer_ModelSelect.vi is within the _Inplementation subdirectory. It seems to me that MALWAREBYTES is chasing subVI’s within primary VI’s if you understand the structure of LabView. If this is indeed the case since many primary VI’s have common subVI’s then superfluous iterations will be encountered in these scans & run times could balloon to unpredictable scales. Eventually the pathname kept getting larger & repeated itself to the point it expanded beyond the view capability of the display & the scan rate slowed to less than 1 file per 2 seconds.

How do we circumvent this?

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There should not be an issue as far as looping but it's possible that some unique file name or security product could be interfering with the scan.

Please create an mbam-check log:

  • Download mbam-check.exe from here and save it to your desktop
  • Double-click on mbam-check.exe to run it, it should then open a log file
  • Please do not copy and paste the entire contents of the log into your next post, instead please attach the log CheckResults.txt file which should now be located on your desktop to your next post

Next, Please run the following scanner and send back the logs.

Download DDS from one of the locations below and save to your Desktop

dds.scr

dds.com

Temporarily disable any script blocker if your Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware has it.

How To Temporarily Disable Your Anti-virus, Firewall And Anti-malware Programs

Once downloaded you can disconnect from the Internet and disable your Ant-Virus temporarily if needed.

Then double click dds.scr or dds.com to run the tool, on Vista or Win 7 right click and select Run as administrator

Click the Run button if prompted with an Open File - Security Warning dialog box.

A black DOS console should open and run for a moment.


    When done, DDS will open two (2) logs:
  1. DDS.txt
  2. Attach.txt

  • Save both reports to your desktop
  • Please include the following logs in your next reply: DDS.txt and Attach.txt
    You can ignore the note about zipping the Attach.txt file in most cases.

Thanks

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