Can I use my PC during a scan?

[EddieJJ]

Yesterday I decided to start a full drive scan (561 GB) on my computer because I am going to be loading some of my crypto wallets on my computer, and I don't want it getting stolen. The scan has been going for over 31 hours, and I haven't used my computer at all. Is it possible for me to use the computer without it affecting the scan/results or somehow hide a virus/malware? 

 

Also, a couple years ago I had a rootkit bitcoin miner on my computer, but luckily malwarebytes detected it and removed it. Would it still be possible for that to affect my PC? 

 

Thank you!

[Porthos]

@EddieJJ

A full scan is not needed.

Malwarebytes is not designed to function like normal AV scanners and uses a new kind of scan engine that relies mostly on heuristics detection techniques rather than traditional threat signatures.  Malwarebytes is also designed to look in all the locations where malware is known to install itself/hide, so a full or custom scan shouldn't be necessary, especially on any sort of frequent basis (like daily), especially since the default Threat Scan/Quick Scan checks all loading points/startup locations, the registry, all running processes and threads in memory, along with all system folders, program folders and data folders as well as any installed browsers, caches and temp locations.  This also means that if a threat were active from a non-standard location, because Malwarebytes checks all threads and processes in memory, it should still be detected.  The only threat it *might* miss would be a dormant/inactive threat that is not actively running/installed on a secondary drive, however if the threat were executed then Malwarebytes should detect it.  Additionally, whenever a new location is discovered to be used by malware the Malwarebytes Research team adds that location dynamically to the outgoing database updates so the locations that are checked by the default Threat/Quick Scan in Malwarebytes can be changed on the fly by Research without requiring any engine or program version updates/upgrades.