Items Scanned Stopped Midway

[Luigi4160]

When I tried scanning for rootkits it seemed to have stopped even though the timer is still ticking. I tried once with full scan and the second time with just rootkit. Both scans seem to have stopped on the same file. I waited between 30 mins to an hour each attempt but the scan never moved past the item. I tried threat scanning and it worked perfectly. What can I do to solve the problem?

mb-check-results.zip

Edited January 26, 2018 by Luigi4160

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[Porthos]

53 minutes ago, Luigi4160 said:

I tried threat scanning and it worked perfectly.

There really is no need to perform a FULL or CUSTOM SCAN with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. Why?

Malwarebytes is designed to remove malware effectively with a THREAT SCAN (formerly QUICK SCAN) which checks memory, looks at the most prevalent places and known launch points for active malware infections. The THREAT SCAN also detects any running malicious files regardless of its location so even if the malware is running from a location not checked by the file system portion of the scan, the THREAT SCAN would still detect it. This check includes not only running processes, but also loaded modules such as .DLLs injected into other processes. Both scans use heuristics that bypasses polymorphic blackhat packers & encryption, MD5, check memory (loaded .exes and .dlls), unique strings, autostart load points and hotspots (everywhere current malware is known to load from) and multiple other malware checks which are not discussed in public to safeguard the program from malware writers who would use that information for nefarious purposes.

A Full Scan is generally only recommended for heavily infected systems...showing obvious indications (signs of infection and malware symptoms) that something is wrong.

And those scans take a long time and sometimes seem stuck and you should not use the computer for anything else at the same time. It takes time to scan 120 gigs of files.

Also You McAfee is trying to scan each file every time MB accesses it to scan.

I would like you to add these files to your Anti-Virus(McAfee) exclusions list as mentioned in this FAQ HERE (my list below includes the exe files as well) Just in case. Please restart your computer you do this.
 

• C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\assistant.exe
• C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\malwarebytes_assistant.exe
• C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\mbam.exe
• C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\MbamPt.exe
• C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\MBAMService.exe
• C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\mbamtray.exe
• C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\MBAMWsc.exe
• C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\mbamwow.exe
• C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\farflt.sys
• C:\Windows\System32\drivers\mbae64.sys
• C:\Windows\System32\drivers\mbam.sys
• C:\Windows\System32\drivers\MBAMChameleon.sys
• C:\Windows\System32\drivers\MBAMSwissArmy.sys
• C:\Windows\System32\drivers\mwac.sys

Also please exclude the following folders too: (The complete folder)

• C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware
• C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes\MBAMService

 

 

[Luigi4160]

Thanks for the advice. I'll stick with the threat scan then. I also added the files to McAfee exclusions list.

[Porthos]

1 minute ago, Luigi4160 said:

Thanks for the advice. I'll stick with the threat scan then. I also added the files to McAfee exclusions list.

You are Welcome.

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