Heuristic scan goes much faster (near instantaneous)

[CT31]

I am using the current version of Malwarebytes.  It is the free, not the premium, version (and I don't have scheduled scans; I only do manual scans).

Over the past few days when I have manually run a "Threat Scan", the scan takes about the normal time it does until it gets to the final step "Heuristics Analysis".  That part now goes much faster than it used to...recently that part has only taken a second or two.  FYI though, the final total number of "Items Scanned" has been roughly the same as it was before...it's just that as of recently the Heuristics Analysis portion of it has become near instantaneous.

 

There have been no threats detected (my antivirus scans with MSE have also come up clean), so is this somehow a new feature or if not, should I be worried?

 

P.S.:  I've attached a text file of the scan report if that will help.

 

 

 

 

mb scan.txt

Edited September 6, 2017 by CT31

[CT31]

I tried it just now again, and the final Heuristics scanning took a little longer this time.  It was still fairly quick (less than a minute) but not near-instantaneous like it was before.  So I guess that's somewhat closer to normal.

 

Is there some heuristics setting I should look at?

[dcollins]

We changed the order of heuristic scans and they actually start earlier in the scan process, which is why the indicator in the UI goes by so quickly