Techsuite slowness

[Your PCMD]

@xtra pc do you want to try it out, before we release it?

What about little ole me? Wouldn't mind being compted ya know? I get left out of everything.

 

[repairtechinc]

What about little ole me? Wouldn't mind being compted ya know? I get left out of everything.

Shoot me an email directly at ian@repairtechsolutions.com

Ian

 

[Your PCMD]

Shoot me an email directly at ian@repairtechsolutions.com

Ian

Done! Thanks Ian.

 

[MDD1963]

I tried using the new techsuite from repairtech yesterday on a client's laptop. I ran a malware removal procedure consisting of several tools including roguekiller, zemana and reason core. I had already been over this laptop manually and was quite sure it was clean but I was curious to see if the techsuite tools could find something I missed. Turns out I was right, not to brag, but the scans all came back with 0 hits (although that itself is kind of strange, not even a malware remnant or an orphaned registry entry? Though maybe zemana and reason core don't consider those files important). The problem was the time it took to run the procedure. I'm quite sure if I hadn't skipped running some of the less important tools, the procedure would still be running. During roguekiller I could literally read each file it was scanning. I'm not sure how long it actually took to run, but it was definitely several hours. Has anyone else experienced this? If this happens to be a common occurrence, I can't imagine techsuite being very useful to anyone. At least not the malware removal procedure anyway. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong?

The latest Roguekiller variant is not what you would call a 'speed-demon' by any means or stretch of the imagination; my Win10 HP/AMD-APU laptop with an SSD (using only 40GB of a 230 GB win10 partition) easily took 45-50 min to scan just that partition...

 

[allanc]

The latest Roguekiller variant is not what you would call a 'speed-demon' by any means or stretch of the imagination; my Win10 HP/AMD-APU laptop with an SSD (using only 40GB of a 230 GB win10 partition) easily took 45-50 min to scan just that partition...

My typical client requires about 20 minutes (remotely) with the standalone version of RogueKiller.
Specs typically are Win 7 sp1, 4 or 8 Gb of ram, maybe 80-100 Gb used on hard drive, i5-4570

 

[MDD1963]

I'd guess the sheer of applications installed greatly influences the amount of time Roguekiller spends sifting through registry entries, etc....; admittedly, my own personal laptop likely has quite a few more utility applications than most personally owned office or home systems, I'd suspect. (Who would normally have a need to tinker with five imaging/backup applications, eight encryption utilities, ten cloud storage utilities, and ten separate remote access software utilities?)

 

[repairtechinc]

Hey guys - We just released an update this morning that should make TechSuite way faster. Here's the release notes:

TechSuite Release Notes 1.0.1
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Big Speed and Stability Improvements!

-Improved the way TechSuite Windows App creates processes for running tools. This should fix the issue where tools would run forever because of PID issues. It also should improve speed for running each tool.
-Removed piping of all console output to debug log. This was slowing down running apps, and creating massive debug logs.
-Increased status updates per second. When tools are running it shows a string of text at the bottom to show what it is doing. This was previously updated once per second, which gave the impression sometimes that tools were running slowly. We increased the frequency to 4 times per second.
-Added ability to clone Procedures. On the "New Procedure" page there is now a link to "Load Procedure" as a starting point.
-Miscellaneous other bug fixes.
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Let me know if you have any questions,

Ian

 

[allanc]

I tried using the new techsuite from repairtech yesterday on a client's laptop. I ran a malware removal procedure consisting of several tools including roguekiller, zemana and reason core. I had already been over this laptop manually and was quite sure it was clean but I was curious to see if the techsuite tools could find something I missed. Turns out I was right, not to brag, but the scans all came back with 0 hits (although that itself is kind of strange, not even a malware remnant or an orphaned registry entry? Though maybe zemana and reason core don't consider those files important). The problem was the time it took to run the procedure. I'm quite sure if I hadn't skipped running some of the less important tools, the procedure would still be running. During roguekiller I could literally read each file it was scanning. I'm not sure how long it actually took to run, but it was definitely several hours. Has anyone else experienced this? If this happens to be a common occurrence, I can't imagine techsuite being very useful to anyone. At least not the malware removal procedure anyway. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong?

I am curious as to your findings re the same tools in the 'new and improved' techsuite.

 

[repairtechinc]

Another update on this. We just released another new version with 2 more malware tools now included as a part of TechSuite: Emsisoft Anti-Malware and ProcessHawk (a tool that I wrote).

In addition, we made some more speed improvements to TechSuite this time around

Release notes here: https://www.repairtechsolutions.com/release-notes/

Ian