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You might also try disabling it once then re-enabling it and seeing if it is still slow.  I have observed that some performance issues caused by it are corrected as long as it is disabled/re-enabled one time during the current Windows session (if you shut down/reboot the system you have to do it again to eliminate the performance issue once more for the current Windows session).

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Yes, the one I mentioned is actually a driver, not a service, though to Windows they're virtually the same thing in many ways (including the ability to monitor and control them via command line via tools like SC and NET).  Obviously since it is a driver, it isn't going to show up in Task Manager, but as long as it works then it's obviously fine either way.  I just don't want you to risk any instability because in some past versions of Malwarebytes, stopping MBAMService manually or killing it via tools like Task Manager actually sometimes resulted in a system hang/freeze where it becomes totally unresponsive.  Hopefully those days are over, but I figured better safe than sorry.

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Just for informational purposes, I've got the same problem, example:

When creating a new Angular project, it takes a very *very* long time to create it (30.000+ files). Eventually it will fail with all kinds of errors. Deleting a project, is also very, very slow.

After a while I found out it was Malwarebytes. After quiting Malwarebytes, file deletion speeds where normal, and creating a new project was without any errors.
After reading this thread I can confirm that (temporarily) disabling the Ransomeware Protection solves this issue.

Can't wait to see a fix for this 'problem' :)

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  • 2 weeks later...
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Greetings. 

We officially released 3.4.5.2467 last Thursday, March29

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/225664-malwarebytes-345-patch-release/

This includes a fix which should also address this issue. 

You can download it here https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/mb3/

An install over the top should be fine, but I'll leave that decision in your hands.

Let us know your results.

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