New Guy Wants To Limit Scan

rogerfgay

My system is spending a lot of CPU time processing indexing, searchindexer, searchfilterhost, and searchprotocolhost. Having done some googling on the subject, I found a lot of complaints and instructions to shut down the indexing service. After having shut down indexing service, the indexing processes are still running pretty hot.

There was a hint somewhere, that programs like searchfilterhost might have been replaced with something bad, and I want to check them for any kind of problem. Running a scan on all of WINDOWS\System32 for any and all problems would be find with me.

I tried creating a custom scan in BitDefender, but apparently got it wrong. I watched as it scanned, and it certainly didn't stick to WINDOWS\System32. Looked like it was still doing the default quick scan.

So what's the procedure to run the custom scan I've described?

Note: I ran RootkitRevealer from Microsoft right now and getting a long list of MSS....log files in Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows that are "Visible in Windows API, but not in MFT or directory index" - I recognize MSS...log files as being related to search indexing. I also got the same message for a long list of Applications\\Windows\Projects\Systemindex\Indexer\CiFiles\ with extensions .ci, .dir, and .wid.

Niels

Hello RogerFGay,

Please do this first open BitDefender by right clicking on the red BitDefender icon near the system tray and press on open advanced settings. After you have done select the antivirus section and go to the scan tab. Now right click with your mouse once you are in the section called: user tasks and select schedule task. Go to the overview tab press on custom, uncheck: scan memory,registry,boot sectors,cookies. After that by the scan files option press on + and select scan program files only press on ok. Now go to scan path tab select the option add item now you can specify with folder you wanted to scan. You will now see that BitDefender will not scan other sections on your computer.

Kind regards,

Niels

rogerfgay

Hello RogerFGay,

Please do this first open BitDefender by right clicking on the red BitDefender icon near the system tray and press on open advanced settings. After you have done select the antivirus section and go to the scan tab. Now right click with your mouse once you are in the section called: user tasks and select schedule task. Go to the overview tab press on custom, uncheck: scan memory,registry,boot sectors,cookies. After that by the scan files option press on + and select scan program files only press on ok. Now go to scan path tab select the option add item now you can specify with folder you wanted to scan. You will now see that BitDefender will not scan other sections on your computer.

Kind regards,

Niels

Thanks Niels.

Niels

Hello RogerFGay,

You are welcome.

Kind regards,

Niels