Should We Enable Rootkit Scanning?

Deep scan (threat scan with scan for rootkits enabled) takes 14-18 hours - Resolved Malware Removal Logs - Malwarebytes Forums.

I just ran a Full Scan (including every scan feature) on my PC with Malwarebytes and it took over 5 hours, which sounds like quite a long time.

Basically how do I improve the scan time of my computer, as I tried to a full scan and it took 5 hours to scan 854,000 files before I stopped it ...

If I just click Scan, it only takes 37 seconds. If I then click Advanced Scan..., and tick Rootkit/ C: drive/Scan it is Very Slow (only 2/3 done ...

About the quick scan, it takes from 5 to 20 minutes depends on how much data on my devices, and about the custom (full) scan my devices have ...

And how long does full scan with rootkit search would take? A VERY LONG time. Malwarebytes is not designed to function like normal AV ...

A normal scan takes slightly over one minute for me, but when I enabled rootkit scanning, it took 1 hour and 31 minutes. That's 1 hour and 30 ...

Turn on the “Scan for rootkits” slider. Next, click the “Scan” button and Malwarebytes quickly scans your device. Download now. review-threats ...

I know it will vary but just for a rough reference it takes me about 4 hours to complete a scan of around 600k files. With rootkits scan enabled ...

Update: I reran MalwareBytes after uninstalling Avast, in regular mode, scanning archives disabled. It managed to finish in ~16 hours. Not ...