Slow deletes

[IBMJunkman]

3TB hard drive over 2TB still available.

When deleting many files process slows to a crawl and stops. Recycle bin NOT being used. Resource monitor shows no activity on the drive.

Drive dying? Onboard cache problem?

 

[IBMJunkman]

Video to show 'speed' of deletes. https://youtu.be/SvynxtG727U

 

[IBMJunkman]

It was Malwarebytes 3.4.4

I have requested solution in their forums.

 

[IBMJunkman]

I fixed the problem by putting a TASKKILL command to terminate the program at the top of the batch file. But it took a second or two to die. The MB forum supplied some insight. The ransom ware checking function appears to have problems. They gave me the name of the driver and I kill that instead. Much faster. They also said they are working on the problem.

 

[nerp]

Good job keeping the threat updated. Kudos to you.

 

[IBMJunkman]

Thanks. I hate threads that just dead end. I posted the same reply in the OS section here, in the ZTree forum and in the JP Software forums.

I must give kudos to the Malwarebytes forum for telling me about the ransonware driver.

 

[Lordhumungus]

I concur, thanks for posting your solution, not enough of that going around these days!