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I was sent here from https://   forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/254035-mwb-scan-hangs after they could not figure out the problem and thought you'd be interested.

I am experienced with computers and do not believe I have a malware problem but it is curious MWB scan hangs during the file scan phase although the timer advances.

You can see various things have been tried, cleanups done, etc. but there is still a problem with the scan.

Anyone care to try to figure this out?

 

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The regular Big Blue Button scan on the main screen of MWB free.

Initiated Update. It hung (ran way too long). Killed it and rebooted. Did update. Completed in seconds.

Ran scan.  AGAIN stuck on Scanning the file system this time on item 219,360.  It's been on that number for several minutes. Cancelled it. 

 

 

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Hello @CW58

Sorry to hear you're having issues with the scanning. Let's try doing a Repair and see if that helps or not. We are tracking a few users with what appears to be a similar issue but we need to confirm some items first.

https://support.malwarebytes.com/docs/DOC-2395

Give that a try and let me know if it corrects the issue or not.

Thanks

 

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On 12/4/2019 at 3:01 PM, AdvancedSetup said:

Sorry to hear you're having issues with the scanning. Let's try doing a Repair and see if that helps or not. We are tracking a few users with what appears to be a similar issue but we need to confirm some items first.

https://support.malwarebytes.com/docs/DOC-2395

Give that a try and let me know if it corrects the issue or not.

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Ran repair. Rebooted. Ran scan. Stuck again on scanning file system.

 

 

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I'm sorry @CW58 but I don't currently have an answer for this issue. I know that our QA department is reviewing it but so far there is no concrete information telling us what is causing this.

Temporarily you can revert back to the 3.8.3 version until our team is able to find a resolution for this.

Constant upgrade notifications in Malwarebytes for Windows v3
https://support.malwarebytes.com/docs/DOC-2465

Turn off upgrade notifications in Malwarebytes for Windows v3
https://support.malwarebytes.com/docs/DOC-2142

https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/mb3-windows-legacy

 

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Hello @CW58

From you logs it is confirmed that scans gets stuck towards the end , but the reason is still not very clear.

A memory dump will be help file to give us more clues.

1. Run a threat scan (Big blue button)

2. When the scan gets stuck go to task manager and generate a dump for the Malwarebytes App.

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We can dig into this further from the memory dump.

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19 minutes ago, nikhils said:

Hello @CW58

From you logs it is confirmed that scans gets stuck towards the end , but the reason is still not very clear.

A memory dump will be help file to give us more clues.

1. Run a threat scan (Big blue button)

2. When the scan gets stuck go to task manager and generate a dump for the Malwarebytes App.

We can dig into this further from the memory dump.

I was just about to uninstall MWB 4 and be done with it but I'm curious so here is the mbam.dmp file.

https://we.tl/t-hJJnbNYak7

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Hi @CW58

We have released a new CU2 beta update that does address several issues. Can you please temporarily disable all other security software. If you have Malwarebytes 3.x installed please uninstall it and reboot.

Then download and install Malwarebytes 4 and set it to download beta versions. Then check for updates, it should update, then reboot the computer and try a scan and let me know if that corrects the issue or not.

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After the update you should have the following or newer updates.

 

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Thank you

 

 

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On 1/17/2020 at 5:18 PM, AdvancedSetup said:

Hello @CW58

I'm following up to see if version 4 of Malwarebytes is working well for you now or not.

 

Ah yes. Hi. I've not touched it since you told me a fix was in the works. I was waiting.

I just ran a scan while connected to the internet and it did update and scan and complete normally with no problems found so it seems to  be working for me.

FYI, I'm still using the DLL you sent but it didn't work before when it was updated but now it does.

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