Yes, about time you stopped banging your head against this brick wall.
Just stick to MalwareBytes and Avast, Emsisoft has been a real pain in the rear for too darn long.
The problem should be solved. The current scanning engine/definitions (from Emsisoft/Bitdefender Emergency Kit) no longer report Avast as malware.
Try deleting your EEK folder and then running the ‘installer’/unpacker again. Because like I said above, after you close the scanner after the scan that picks up the Avast files as ‘malware,’ it won’t show them up on the scan anymore once you open it again. But re-extracting the files from the “installer” will make them show up again on the first scan. At least that’s was happening to me.
Sorry, but I have to contradict you.
I restored my whole system this morning.
After this I updated all programs including EEK.
All data were like it was before the problem started (same starting position).
The first and the second scan result nothing, excluding EICAR-File.
Perhaps it is possible that you using the local whitelisting function (ignoring) of EEK ?
This would explain the behavior of your EEK.
When you say you updated EEK after your restore, did you re-extract everything fresh from their installer file? Or did you have the folder with all of the subfolders, files, and scanner saved on another drive and copied and pasted it onto your computer?
I am not doing any whitelisting or exclusions on EEK or Avast, at least not manually. I thought that perhaps if the EEK scan picks something up and no action is taken (deletion or quarantine), that EEK would take that as the user wanting to ignore the files going forward. However, after speaking to Emsisoft support, I was told that shouldn’t be the case, and sent a video capture of me going through the process and showing him (at his request) so he can escalate it.
It was a full mirror of the hard disk, also EEK has restored.
But from this position the last update from EEK was over 70 days ago (in a manner of speaking fresh).
From this starting time EEK has never reported Avast as a malware.
When you not using ignore or something else, which version you are re-installing from EEK?
It is possible, that you using a not updated database, before you running the first time after installing?
Observe that the download of EEK-Tool is not everytime up to date with the datebase definitions (current downloadable version 3 month old) !
It is not logical if the system shows a behavior like that the one you discribe.
As far as i know EEK not working with stream services which could communicate delayed.
Perhaps try to restart EEK after updating before you scan with it the first time after re-install.
So that means it copied it as it was. Even with the update needed, it’s still technically the same ‘installation.’ Try deleting your folder from your active drive, and re-extracting the files again and doing a scan of the same folders, if you’re bored and don’t mind.
I’m using the basic Emergency scanner only as you are, the latest version from their website. The issue happens whether I update or not, but on a new “installation” it automatically updates anyway.
Just to follow up on this, I did a MBAM full scan with Avast completely uninstalled a couple of nights ago, and the scan still took 16 hours. Seems like it’s not completely unheard of for MB to take forever on a custom scan on the whole C drive, especially when scanning for rootkits as well.
OT:- I’ve never had the issue for 16 hours as yours, something is terribly wrong with your PC. Maximum full custom scan on both SSD took me just about an hour and 20 mins.
Well, i’m still on a HDD, so that’s possibly why.
But yeah, i’m not trying to suggest that 16 hours should be seen as “normal”, more just responding to the implication that Avast and MBAM coexisting (even with MBAM real time protection off) was the cause of that.
Scrap the old HDD crap and get yourself a SSD.
Yesterday I checked the SSD disk with the Emsisoft Emergency Kit scanner.Updated the entire database of virus signatures.And the scanner immediately found the 4th file Gen:Variant.Ady.381197 in the Avast folder.And at the same moment, the scanner froze and the whole system froze on the laptop.I had to forcibly turn off the laptop.After enabling the laptop, all system files were checked by the sfc /scannow command. No damage to the system was detected.Then I turned on the EEK scanner, updated the virus signature database with a new one, and began checking the system partition.The 74 GB scanner checked for 2 hours and 30 minutes.The laptop is weak.The scanner has not found this virus anymore ! Then I went to the site using the link https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url and I checked the files I found in the Avast folder on it.The virus check did not reveal any viruses in them.Of the 4 files, only 2 were in their places.The rest of the files are gone !I provide screenshots of scanner reports and screenshots of the location of these files.I’ll have to check the system section again at the end of the week and provide my comment here.
I am adding the last screenshot from my previous comment.