MBAM Scanned almost 2 hours still not finished??

I went to sleep and let MBAM give a full scan of my new laptop.

There wasn't anything running except MBAM. When I woke up,MBAM was still struggling there in drive C (25G).

BTW,AVG on my computer uses less than an hour to finish a full scan.

I don't think it's normal for MBAM,right?

 

This is really why I very rarely do a full MBAM scan these days. On both Vista 32 machines I use it on I find it takes well over 2 hours. Most of that time scanning inside C:\Windows\Winsxs. Much quicker on an XP machine I have though. I still use it on demand fairly regularly though for scanning individual files before letting the out of Sandboxie etc.

By way of comparison Avira takes around 25 minutes, Kaspersky about the same and ASquared around 40 minutes on these systems.

Hope you get some responses to see if this is typical or whether we have a particular issue.

Cheers

 

Hi Chris,

Right,my system is Vista 32 too.

 

Prescription:

Restart your PC 3 times a day;

Clean your PC ( IE Temporary Files and others, CCleaner, PureRa ... Services ... junk files and Programs ...etc );

Look to your Mem Usage and Nonpaged Kernel Memory.

 

... I have:

18 Processes in my DTaskManager; 27 Services Started;

Windows XP SP2 Professional;

Scan MBAM: Objects scanned: 66519; Time elapsed: 1 minute 53 seconds.


I wish you the same.

PROROOTECT

 

Hmmmmm, very interesting. I found MBAM to be slow as molasses in January (even though it was March) on the 3 of my machines I ran it on - on the order of 2-3 hours to complete - FULL scans, that is.

 

A full scan from MBAM takes about 30 minutes in my machine (C:\ is 120GB) with 32 processes running in the background.

 

I bet yours' not vista.

 

Same here : 40mn on XP and almost 2 hours on Vista.

 

Just tested, Vista 12min45s, XP 12min30s Full scan.

 

nLited XP Pro install with only system/needed app data on C drive.

 

Hi deanmartin,

I'm curious about your machine's hardware information.

 

37 secs?
You must have an ultra powerful rig there

 

Not really, probably mid range in being a xeon quad, 4 gig 800 ram and raptor drive hooked up at the moment, dual booting XP/Vista.

The WD 640 gig drives seems just as good.

I think the quick times are due to having a minimal amount of data stored on the system drives and also subsequent scans may be quicker after the initial scan which may have been the case but not sure on that?

vLited Vista Ultimate scan times:

 

Just Intel Core2 duo 2.33, 4GBRam, 500HD, 32bit Vista Home Premium. I dont save anything on my internal drive. My only startup programs are whats in my signature and run CCleaner and Auslogics Disk defrag every 2 weeks. Also I use Black Vipers tweak settings. With this in Place my scans are good with just about all.

 

i see in your signiture you have SUPERAntiSyWare Pro and i want to ask you?is the real time shield similar or same as Mbam ?thanks cause i have mbam in wife's laptop but it is very quiet the real time shield is silent is superantispyware pro same?
note:not comparing and the reason it is that i want to know from a word of mouth before buying or maybe buy another copy of mbam but not yet decided

 

I never used the Pro version MBAM, as for SAS on my PC its quiet. Heck all my security programs are quiet, but i guess thats a good thing. Im sure they're both good programs just pick the one you like.

 

thanks for your advise

 

Been this way since day one, is why they push to use the quick scan only.

I spec its just a poorly coded scanner engine as I remember back in 2000,2001 Avira Free went through the same thing, this is a part of why things are free and folks say, you get exactly what you pay for.

 

It's kind of unbelievable.I mean finished in 12 mins.

My pc is also tweaked...not completely yet though.

 

OK OK. Good to hear I'm not alone...

 

I'm using the free version, with all scan options checked except the first 2. Dont no if that makes a difference or not. May just be my PC setup.

 

As has been mentioned elsewhere, according to MBAM's developers, Quick Scan really IS all you need, as it scans all file and registry locations used by malware in its database.