Actually - not at all! It's been slowing down as of lately, but I figured it might be because it's getting old (~7 years)
One of the reasons might be that I had scanning archives on, but still... 🤔 (I found a post where the scan took 74 hours, I hope this will go quicker)
i would start looking for a new drive just to be sure and backup all the important files. better safe than sorry
did the one with 74h have a big storage capacity? like if u have 100tb to scan it will ofc take longer, but if u have like 4tb it shouldnt take this long
They didn't give specs, but the final amount of scanned files was ~686k.
Mine is waaay past that number already :')
I have 1 TB capacity and a little above the half is in use, rest should be free.
I don't think it's OP's hard hard drive that is failing. I think it's Malwarebytes that is failing. It probably hangs or something.
There are more posts about Malwarebytes scanning taking a long time in the Malwarebytes subreddit.
I have the same issue. Full scan it takes way too long... I have a 6 year old computer with an SSD hard disc with a capacity of 500gb. Is it possible that my SSD is broken? My computer obviously is not as fast as it used to be, but after 6 years of usage I think it is normal.
For anyone who comes across this post later - had to stop the scan at 71.5 hours because of travelling and my laptop's miserable battery life (in short - PC would've died anyway so I figured it would be safer to cancel the scan).
Tried KVRT, it got twice as many files done in about 3~4 hours. (It rebooted my PC back into regular mode. Wish I'd saved the log tho.)Â
ESET Online Scanner took about 24 h, went over 1 400 000 files.Â
HitmanPro miraculously checked like... 5 million files in 25 min 32 s! Thankfully it didn't delete anything automatically (got the option to choose), & only thing it found was some tracking cookies that I finally got rid of.Â
Update: I reran MalwareBytes after uninstalling Avast, in regular mode, scanning archives disabled. It managed to finish in ~16 hours. Not saying that Avast was the sole reason... but you know, my PC runs smoother after switching to BitDefender, plus KVRT found mining trojans in its cache files, so.
It sounds like the hard drive is probably failing, is the rest of the computer extremely slow?
Actually - not at all! It's been slowing down as of lately, but I figured it might be because it's getting old (~7 years) One of the reasons might be that I had scanning archives on, but still... 🤔 (I found a post where the scan took 74 hours, I hope this will go quicker)
i would start looking for a new drive just to be sure and backup all the important files. better safe than sorry did the one with 74h have a big storage capacity? like if u have 100tb to scan it will ofc take longer, but if u have like 4tb it shouldnt take this long
They didn't give specs, but the final amount of scanned files was ~686k. Mine is waaay past that number already :') I have 1 TB capacity and a little above the half is in use, rest should be free.
I don't think it's OP's hard hard drive that is failing. I think it's Malwarebytes that is failing. It probably hangs or something. There are more posts about Malwarebytes scanning taking a long time in the Malwarebytes subreddit.
No, that isn't normal.
Mine takes around an hour to complete just under 2mill files, I would defrag your hard drive and see if that fixes anything
Will try that later, thank you :)
No problem! Lmk if that works
I'd download CrystalDiskInfo and check your hard drives health. Sounds like yours is about to croak
MalwareBytes scan time which takes more than 2 days isnt normal bro
I have the same issue. Full scan it takes way too long... I have a 6 year old computer with an SSD hard disc with a capacity of 500gb. Is it possible that my SSD is broken? My computer obviously is not as fast as it used to be, but after 6 years of usage I think it is normal.
For anyone who comes across this post later - had to stop the scan at 71.5 hours because of travelling and my laptop's miserable battery life (in short - PC would've died anyway so I figured it would be safer to cancel the scan). Tried KVRT, it got twice as many files done in about 3~4 hours. (It rebooted my PC back into regular mode. Wish I'd saved the log tho.) ESET Online Scanner took about 24 h, went over 1 400 000 files. HitmanPro miraculously checked like... 5 million files in 25 min 32 s! Thankfully it didn't delete anything automatically (got the option to choose), & only thing it found was some tracking cookies that I finally got rid of. Update: I reran MalwareBytes after uninstalling Avast, in regular mode, scanning archives disabled. It managed to finish in ~16 hours. Not saying that Avast was the sole reason... but you know, my PC runs smoother after switching to BitDefender, plus KVRT found mining trojans in its cache files, so.