Malwarebytes

[martymas]

ok i installed malwarebytes

and scanned the two sys xp and vista

xp took 47 minutes

and bloody vista took 2hrs and 67 minutes

now my q estion

what do i delete to lighten the over bloated sys

i remember when xp came out many complained about the sys being so over bloated

but if you have vista you know that over bloated means

by the way i like this MWB

PRETTY DAM GOOD

it found one bit of poop

called adware zango

and when i googled it this is the info

adware zango is installed by many methods

ads- popups put there by open cookies

and third party

applis contracted to microsoft

if any of you guys lived closer to me ide give you this vista disk

but i have to live with it now

like it or not

again that malwarebytes is pretty cool

thanks to mrbill who sent me the link

and all who posted in for me to try

thanks

appreciated

marty

[bar5]

Marty:

I have Malwarebytes on XP and Vista. Are you doing the FULL scan or QUICK scan? Full scan does take a long time, but quick scan is done within 10-15 min. or less.

I do a quick scan weekly, and a full scan monthly. Both XP and Vista about same amount of time. Not too much difference that I have noticed.

Barb

[martymas]

hi bar

i have vista on one machine and xp on the other

i like this malwarebytes

i did the quick scan

and it found none but when i did a thorough scan it found this adware zango

with the xp scan it found nothing on both options

but im not sure why one scan was longer than the other

a difference of 2hrs and 10 minutes

ive tried many of these scanners

but this isnt to bad

ime keeping it

[flashh4]

Hi marty, try cleaning your temps out first, It can make a difference if you have a lot of them.As for the full scan, most experts say its not necessary to run, just do the quick scan is all thats needed.

Here is a speech we use:

Please download ATF cleaner

Make sure that all browser windows are closed.

• Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
  Under Main choose: Select All
  Click the Empty Selected button.
  

If you use Firefox browser

• Click Firefox at the top and choose: Select All
  Click the Empty Selected button.
  NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt.
  

If you use Opera browser

• Click Opera at the top and choose: Select All
  Click the Empty Selected button.
  NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt.
  

Click Exit on the Main menu to close the program.

Hope this helps

You take care over there Marty.

Chuck

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[Pete_C]

Marty have you optimized Vista yet? Turned off Aero, glass, whatever fancy effects it has by default on your stytem, disabled UCE and all the other crap that just slows everything down?

Some suggestions here

http://forums.g4tv.com/showthread.php?t=103528

Another thing that could affect your scan time is the antivirus / protection you have. Are they different between the two machines?

What about drive size, and amount of files? Number of profiles?

Did you choose the quick scan on both? Ah, I see, the quick scan found nothing, the complete found zango. In the log (run MBAM, click the logs tab and look for the correct log) where does it say it found it? System restore? A download folder where you had something you had downloaded but not installed? Bundled software you had not installed?