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Greetings, everyone. And thanks for many years of allowing me to use this great product!

Starting some time in the last few days, I am noting the below new behaviors:

 

1) Right clicking on the Malwarebytes icon in the task bar is associated with a very long delay before the associated context menu shows up (with check for updates on top). All other icons respond much more quickly when they are right clicked,

2) When I use this method to "show Malwarebytes", it now take more than one minute for the program screen to open; previously, it rarely took more than five seconds. 

 

All other computer functions are operating normally, including their speed. I have updated Malwarebytes (it showed no updates needed), quit and restarted Malwarebytes, without change, and have rebooted, without change. Could this be a manifestation of Friday's component package update? Am running Windows 10, version 1909 (my company is slow to adopt new versions). Happy to send additional information, if desired. 

 

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Hi drdas,

I got a similar "problem" and I allready opend a new forum thread:

 

Did you allready try to make a clean unistall and reinstall Malwarbytes using the Malwarebytes support tool?

How much Ram do you have? I got 8 GB, having 16 GB or more could  help too.

But anyway´s ... 1 Minute response time is more than to much ... 

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I don’t think it’s a RAM issue, since I’ve used this for years and the problem just started. I haven’t installed any new software or applied any other updates, which is why I wondered if it could be the recent MWB version that installed itself over the weekend.

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Additional information (which may or may not be helpful):

Once the MWB program window is open, everything within that window reacts quickly, and scans seem to function normally and speedily, whether routinely daily scans or on-demand scans. It is simply opening up the context menu (only from the MWB icon) and opening up the program window that take a long time (and I just measured it; it is three minutes after clicking on "show Malwarebytes" for the window to pop up).

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Thanks for your reply.

Well it definitely ain't the newest computer. Standard drive (not optical or solid state), but plenty of free space (250G out of 450G free). 8 GB RAM, intel i5-5300 2.30GHz processor. 

But again, everything else is running smoothly and MWB was perfect until this weekend. And it is only MWB that seems to have slowed down.

FWIW: If I run task manager when I'm waiting for MWB to open, neither the CPU nor the memory get above 50% utilization total (among all programs) though MWB does get the lion's share while its awaiting opening (21% CPU).

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Indeed it is, sir. The problem persists. The reality is that, as long as I don't make any effort to open the main interface or right click on the icon, I wouldn't know that there was a problem at all. And maybe ignoring it is the way to go. Scans are continuing to occur at scheduled times and they seem to run with the appropriate speed. So it is really more of an annoyance than anything else....

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Not really sure. I can duplicate a slowdown on first start of the computer and trying to open the first time. After that though the average is about 5 seconds give or take for me but I am on a high-end system.

It's after 3 AM for me so I have to get to bed, but will try to check the after reboot speed to see what the initial start time is for me.

 

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Just wanted to comment here. I am running the latest beta, clicking on MB icon on desktop it takes about 7 seconds for program to open, clicking on icon in taskbar it takes 10 seconds, way too slow. I have 12 GB of ram so that is not the issue and everything else opens fine on my computer. Not going to provide logs just wanted to let interested parties know.

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Please download process monitor and unzip it.

Then close down and exit out of everything possible including chat, web, games, etc. everything possible you can close please close.

Then run Process Monitor and then click to start Malwarebytes. Once Malwarebytes shows up then stop Process Monitor and save the log. Zip it up and post back here please.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

Thanks

 

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