Hi,
Yesterday standard scan of C, D and F(external) drives, which normally takes about 35-45 mins, took over 2 HOURS to complete, same again in safe mode. Now I've got about 90GB of AVI files across D and F drives, so today I excluded video d/load folders and whaddayaknow scan took 38 mins. Thing is I've had similar amount on system for a while, last files added were on 23 Dec (900MB), I usually scan daily and it's only yesterday the slowdown occured. Checked log files today and found these, both related to start time of first scan yesterday:
WARNING.
26/12/2008 17:11:17 1230311477 SYSTEM 1520 AAVM - scanning warning: x_AavmCheckFileDirectEx [UNI]: D:\Documents and Settings\Jim Shaw\Application Data\SUPERAntiSpyware.com\SUPERAntiSpyware\PROCESSLIST.BIN (D:\Documents and Settings\Jim Shaw\Application Data\SUPERAntiSpyware.com\SUPERAntiSpyware\PROCESSLIST.BIN) returning error, 0000A413.
ERROR.
26/12/2008 17:11:17 1230311477 SYSTEM 1520 AAVM - scanning error: x_AavmCheckFileDirectEx: avfilesScanReal of D:\Documents and Settings\Jim Shaw\Application Data\SUPERAntiSpyware.com\SUPERAntiSpyware\PROCESSLIST.BIN failed, 0000A413.
Checked SAS program files, and related folders (PROCESSLIST/PROCESSLISTRELATED), assume to do with updates, are zip/database, this new one is only .BIN file, created time as above. No warnings/errors from today's Avast scan.
Any ideas why this slowdown started? I can keep excluding video files from scans, as scan them after d/load before opening anyway (I'm not that stupid), but I'm wondering about the coincidence of the above log messages. Possible unrelated false positives? Scan results remain clean, just usual unreadable archive files reported. As things seem OK now should I just leave videos excluded from scans and forget about it?
Any comments appreciated.
Cheers.
Windows XP SP2 - security on system: Comodo Firewall Pro, Avast 4.8.1296 (resident protection), SUPERAntiSpyware, MBAM, Spybot S&D (no Tea-Timer, immunize only), Trojan Remover.