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Since you stopped supporting the wake-up feature, I have added Windows Task Scheduler entries with the same dates & times that match each MB schedule entry. Hence, even if the computer wakes up at the appropriate time for the scan to run nothing is preventing it from going back to sleep when the sleep/hibernate times expire.

You make no attempt to inform windows that you are running a task that should not be interrupted until it is finished.

However as discussed above most people want these tasks to run in the off hours when their computer is usually asleep. If your computer is already awake you scan will startup and run.

You no longer make any attempt to set the computer to wake up at the scheduled time.

These programs also request a power override, so the system does not go back to sleep if the scan exceeds the sleep/hibernate timers. Most programs make an entry in the Windows task scheduler that wakes the computer up at the appropriate time and runs the scan. Every other antivirus/antimalware/backup program I have tested manages to do make it work. There is also several comments and reference to changes in how MB 3.0 works that makes the removal necessary however no real details are provided and I find it extremely difficult to understand what those difficulties are. He stating: “After another follow up, this is currently expected behavior but we're looking at how we want to address this in the future. There was even a response from Dcollins in august 2017 making it pretty clear that the feature was removed, and no immediate remedy is planned. When I searched Malwarebytes Forums, I noticed that several other people have complained about this. It seems odd to me that a schedule feature that works so well in the past had simply been removed. There really needs to be a way to make these scans run when no one is using the computer. Problem is it used to work fine in older releases of MB but feature seems to have been intentionally removed well over a year ago.

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However, they are all complaining about the poor performance when they wake their computers in the morning, especially for the monthly full custom scan.

I have numerous clients that I have moved to MB since I believe it is one of the best anti-malware programs. No one wants to sit there while a long running scan eats away resources in the background, that is why you schedule these maintenance tasks while you are asleep and not using the PC. This kind of defeats the purpose of having a schedule in the first place. People generally run scheduled maintenance activities in the off hours when there is little chance that they will be using the computer (usually in the middle of the night for most). This behavior is the exact opposite of what is expected and desired. It only works when someone is using the computer, so it stays awake. The result is that the scan schedule feature became virtually useless. It was even worse for many of my clients since their monthly scans often ran 5 to 8 hours. While this was a minor annoyance for the daily scans (which only ran 10-15 minutes) it was a major annoyance for the monthly scan (which usually ran several hours).

Every morning when I woke up my PC, the scan would start running thereby slowing up my work on the PC.

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All worked well, and everyone was happy.Īpproximately 2 years ago I believe it was after the update to MB 3.0 this all stopped working. When people first signed on in the morning the scan was already completed, and they could check the report to see if anything was found and quarantined and follow up as necessary. This worked fine for several years their computers would wake up, run the scans, and then go back to sleep. For obvious reasons these scans were generally scheduled for off hours when people were not using their computers (usually during the night while most people are asleep). As part of the setup I have always a scheduled Daily Custom Threat Scan early every morning and a Monthly Custom Full Scan once a month.

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I have also helped several dozen family members, friends, and clients to purchase and setup this software on their PC’s. I Have been using Malwarebytes software for 5+ years back when there were two separate programs (Anti-Malware and Anti-Exploit).