Alejandro Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 Emsisoft Anti-Malware 2017.12.1.8340 - OS: Windows 10 (Version 1709, Build 16299.192 64-bit Edition) While running a custom scan I clicked on "Pause" button; the button's caption became "Resume", but the scanner didn't pause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500 Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 What scan options did you use, and how long did you wait after clicking "Pause"? It does take some time for the scanner to respond to the pause/stop buttons, so it's possible that it may have paused after a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alejandro Posted January 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Thank you GT500 for your response. In the image below is an image with the options I used. Disk C is an SSD unit; D and F are spinning disks. Well, the problem occurred once yesterday, but now I cannot reproduce it; I made several tests and Pause now do pause as expected. Sorry I do not understand what could be the difference, perhaps yesterday there was some other process running concurrently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyNicoll Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 I see that that scan includes looking in zips etc. If EAM was unpacking a zip at the time you tried to pause it, the unpack process and maybe even the scan of the items in it, might be the sort of thing that would continue to its end before EAM tests again whether pause has been selected. There's also a point where EAM scans the contents of a disk, I think, before embarking on scanning files. I don't know whether when you scan multiple disks the creation of the list of files happens all at once at the start (well, after memory etc is scanned), or before each disk is considered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500 Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 Did you pause the scan around 80% complete? That's when the scanner is calculating all of the files it has left to scan, so it's entirely possible that the scanner wouldn't have responded until that was finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alejandro Posted February 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 I think now it could be both of them, unpacking a zip (or 7zip more probably), and an intensive process running at the same time. I wanted to pause the scan because of this other process was taking most of CPU cycles. Well, I am sorry I can´t reproduce the case, but I think now it was a reasonable behaviour. Many thanks for your time and dedication. Alejandro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500 Posted February 3, 2018 Report Share Posted February 3, 2018 You're welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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