Malwarebytes 3.0 scanned 412,000 items in 11 minutes, before it took 3 hours!

[sophie707]

Is Malwarebytes 3.0 truly working?

On my laptop (Windows 7 64bit), previously MBAM would take about 3 hours for the recommended threat scan.

Now a threat scan takes only 11 minutes to scan 412,000 items.

I know Malwarebytes 3.0 is supposed to be faster; but that much faster?

[sophie707]

I just wanted to add I repeated a threat scan and watched it as it was going.

The scan of the registry is completed in only a couple of seconds, and the heuristic analysis of thousands of items takes only a few seconds.

Is this what it is supposed to be?

[Firefox]

This all depends on what options you have enabled...

Do you have scan within archives enabled?

Do you have scan for rootkits enabled?

[sophie707]

8 hours ago, Firefox said:

This all depends on what options you have enabled...

Do you have scan within archives enabled?

Do you have scan for rootkits enabled?

Yes, I do have both scan within archives and scan for rootkits enabled.

[TheThornWithin]

"Our engineers have spent the last year building this product from the ground up and have combined our Anti-Malware, Anti-Exploit, Anti-Ransomware, Website Protection, and Remediation technologies all into a single product which we simply call “Malwarebytes. And it scans your computer 4 times faster!"

Marcin Kleczynski

 

[sophie707]

Okay, thanks!

Just needed some reassurance being so much faster, Malwarebytes was actually scanning items and not just counting them.

Edited February 24, 2017 by sophie707

[Firefox]

7 hours ago, sophie707 said:

Yes, I do have both scan within archives and scan for rootkits enabled.

With those two enabled, the scan times take longer.... and depending on how many files are on your computer as well...

But as already stated, they have improved the scan engine to be much faster... imaging how much faster it would be if you were not scanning within archives...

[sophie707]

So as I said before, a Threat Scan takes only 11 minutes to scan 412,000 items (single partitioned hard-drive C and D).

I just did a custom scan of the same partitioned hard drive - C and D;  it took 2hr58min to scan 276,348 items.

Everything for both scans is turned on; scan within archives, scan for rootkits, ....

11 minutes vs 2hr58min? Any many more items scanned during the 11 minute scan?

Are we sure nothing is wrong?

Edited February 24, 2017 by sophie707

[Firefox]

Yeah, that sounds about right.... a threat scan can only take ~15 min or so on most systems these days...

Also if you perform the scan right after one another without rebooting the computer, the scans would be quicker due to windows caching...

Just to add, I looked at my scan that took place not to long ago, and it scanned 434,044 objects in 8:44 minutes

Edited February 24, 2017 by Firefox
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[happybut]

8 hours ago, Firefox said:

... imaging how much faster it would be if you were not scanning within archives...

And would be even faster if you do not scan in anything....

Of course, if you scan here and there is fast, but this is not the question here....