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Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT Malwarebytes
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 17:01:29 -0400
Check to see if your drive is a "SMART" drive. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Self-tests> A SMART drive is capable of running self-tests to analyze its own performance. But its self-testing should not be so intrusive as to interfere with real work.

The run times you report seem excessive for the amount of data involved. It's possible your hard drive is undergoing soft failures... getting read errors which are ultimately recoverable after one or more retries. That's the sort of thing that SMART should be able to detect.

However, if any of these drives are not internal but are connected via USB 2.0 that may explain your speed problem. USB 2.0 is truly slow.

Chuck Norcutt


On 6/7/2014 2:56 PM, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Just a cautionary note.
I have been suspicious for a while of hard drive activity that I could see no 
call for, so in addition to having Avast antivirus running I installed 
Malwarebytes to check for the sort of malware they specialise in.
It took more than a day to check my C drive ( which is small) and THREE AND A 
HALF days to check my main data disk which has less than 200,000 files and has 
just 168 gb used.
Just now it started up again despite me (thinking had deferred the next scan 
for about a month) trying to avoid those excesses. In doing so it greatly 
paralysed the machine.
I have just uninstalled it !!  I can reinstall it if I see a need.
Brian

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