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On occasion I'll use the Windows Disk Cleaner to clean up excess system restore points since I also use the system backup feature. When the cleaner is loading I've noticed that the System Tray Icon shows activity and it takes an excessively long time for the program to load. However after putting this program in the Exclusion List that seemed to allow the cleaner to open much quicker. For my Win 7 64bit machine the file path for the cleaner is: C:\Windows\System32\cleanmgr.exe. The same behavior was seen with Robert's XP Pro 32bit machine as well. Would it be possible to "whitelist" this Windows program for the benefit of everyone who uses the Windows cleaner?

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Hi Millard, I'm currently using the 3.0.6 beta. This is what was produced with a SHA-256 hash generator:

hex: f2cad25c4884304b0978aeebadb0ef74f00cedab4a03f9eaf34675250d2497f1HEX: F2CAD25C4884304B0978AEEBADB0EF74F00CEDAB4A03F9EAF34675250D2497F1h:e:x: f2:ca:d2:5c:48:84:30:4b:09:78:ae:eb:ad:b0:ef:74:f0:0c:ed:ab:4a:03:f9:ea:f3:46:75:25:0d:24:97:f1base64: 8srSXEiEMEsJeK7rrbDvdPAM7atKA/nq80Z1JQ0kl/E=

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Hi Millard, I'm currently using the 3.0.6 beta. This is what was produced with a SHA-256 hash generator:

hex: f2cad25c4884304b0978aeebadb0ef74f00cedab4a03f9eaf34675250d2497f1HEX: F2CAD25C4884304B0978AEEBADB0EF74F00CEDAB4A03F9EAF34675250D2497F1h:e:x: f2:ca:d2:5c:48:84:30:4b:09:78:ae:eb:ad:b0:ef:74:f0:0c:ed:ab:4a:03:f9:ea:f3:46:75:25:0d:24:97:f1base64: 8srSXEiEMEsJeK7rrbDvdPAM7atKA/nq80Z1JQ0kl/E=

That one is marked clean as well.

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Cool! Thanks Millard! I would assume it's ok to delete the cleanmgr.exe exclusion then, right?

Yes, it's ok to delete the cleanmgr.exe exclusion. However, we still need to figure out what the original performance hit due to. Have you ever deleted your cache.db? We've added some indexes to the databases through various versions of the agent, back populate them. It might be a good idea to:

 

1) Open commandline as administrator

2) Run the following commands:

net stop immunetprotect

cd "%PROGRAMFILES%\ImmunetProtect"

move cache.db 20120411_cache.db

move history.db 20120411_history.db

move historyex.db 20120411_historyex.db

net start immunetprotect

 

And see if the performance is better.

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Hi Millard, I got as far as cmd "%PROGRAMFILES%\ImmunetProtect" but after that the other commands read: " The system cannot find the file specified. I tried it several times too using separate commands. EDIT: Ok, I think I was successful this time. I typed in all the commands as one string and hit Enter. That did it to reset everything. As most PC users, I don't have a need to use command prompts that often as you could probably guess, lol! On another note Millard, I saw some strange activity the other night, agent.exe had opened over 700 internet connections, heavy disk I/O accompanied this and was "really slowing things down!' I did a restart of the system and that calmed things down to normal. Maybe this is the same hashing problem other users have seen but this is the first time I have personally encountered this. I hope this tweak helps with that not occurring again! If it does happen again I'll get some screenshots to document the behavior and send an SDT report.

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