morty Posted November 8, 2017 Report Share Posted November 8, 2017 Today a new version download when I did my update. I went stiff as a rabbit when I got hit with the usual boxes of Premium, Activate Now ...etc. After a quick google I figured out how to switch it to the Free version. I vaguely remember doing this when I first downloaded it a couple of years back. But was has me foxed is this ... It used to take it about 1 hr 44 mins to check my computer before ( not a biggy at only about 240 gigs). This new version did it today in 6 minutes. That can't be right can it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted November 8, 2017 Report Share Posted November 8, 2017 2 minutes ago, morty said: Today a new version download when I did my update. I went stiff as a rabbit when I got hit with the usual boxes of Premium, Activate Now ...etc. After a quick google I figured out how to switch it to the Free version. I vaguely remember doing this when I first downloaded it a couple of years back. But was has me foxed is this ... It used to take it about 1 hr 44 mins to check my computer before ( not a biggy at only about 240 gigs). This new version did it today in 6 minutes. That can't be right can it? YES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morty Posted November 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2017 Well if it is I'm amazed .. and delighted. I'll do a scan every day instead of putting it off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnoo Posted November 10, 2017 Report Share Posted November 10, 2017 On 11/8/2017 at 4:38 PM, morty said: Well if it is I'm amazed .. and delighted. I'll do a scan every day instead of putting it off. I used the new free version today, "C" Drive of 254Gb, it took 16 minutes 36 Secs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morty Posted November 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2017 That's tallies .... my 6 min scan was on a 116 G drive. I have spotted something though ... I've a partitioned drive which the old version used to do automatically but this one left out. I found out because sad thing that I am I sat and watched all the file names whizzing along as it scanned them. Not a problem though ..I just do it with a right click on my D drive in Computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D4\/!d Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 morty, Go to Scan>Custom Scan and specify which drives you want scanned. I only ever scan my C:\drive which is just OS and programs, and don't scan my D:\ data drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 I also have been letting Malwarebytes just scan my C drive where resides Windows and all software. My D Drive - which is a separate internal hard drive stores all data - which includes documents, downloads, docs, pictures, music, videos etc. The above posts got me thinking and I have just run a scan of my D Drive - it detected 2 items of malware and 16 PUPs most of which were in the downloads folder. I am now going to scan my internal and external hard drives where my back-ups are stored as a precaution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 16 hours ago, morty said: That's tallies .... my 6 min scan was on a 116 G drive. I have spotted something though ... I've a partitioned drive which the old version used to do automatically but this one left out. I found out because sad thing that I am I sat and watched all the file names whizzing along as it scanned them. Not a problem though ..I just do it with a right click on my D drive in Computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 I almost feel "left out" with this Malware business. I run Linux Mint. Well I am not quite correct ....it more or less runs itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 I have now scanned my back-up drives and the same malware found on the D drive has now been eliminated. I future I will be scanning the C and D drives to ensure they are kept clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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