Should I Let Malwarebytes Quarantine Registrydefragboottime.exe?

Every time my Malwarebytes Premium does one of its scheduled threat scans, it keeps identifying C:\Windows\system32\registrydefragboottime.exe as a PUP.

I did a search on it, and found a few sources that gave this file a rating of “safe” or “clear,” but I found no reviews of this file’s attributes — so no suspicious behavior had been reported for this executable so far — nor did I even find a description of what this file is.

I have noticed that recently, upon rebooting, a defrag is run (unless one opts out), and this is new behavior for my PC.

Can anyone tell me anything about this file, especially whether or not I should let Malwarebytes quarantine it?

 

registrydefragboottime.exe is part of Advanced SystemCare.
Open Advanced SystemCare and turn off boot-time defragmentation.

 

Yes, Tim. That is why I mentioned it. Let me be more explicit. Because my PC is defragging on reboot, that suggests that registrydefragboottime.exe is what it purports to be, rather than malware masquerading as a defrag utility. I mentioned that in order to give as complete a description of the situation as I can.

 

I did indeed encounter that problem, but I then configured ASC as an exception in MBAM.

 

Do you mean to unselect Clean & Optimize > Registry Defrag?

 

No.
There should be an option to just turn off Boot-time defragmentation, unless you want/need it.

If you want Malwarebytes to ignore the file, you'll have to add it to the exception list.
Because the file is in the System32 folder, adding ASC to the exception list will not include said file.

 

There is all you have to do is make sure.

 

FYI just make sure malwarebytes ignores any thing to do with ASC.

 

OK, that seems to have worked. Thanks.

Sorry, I’m just not finding Boot-time defragmentation in ASC 11.2 Free. Would you happen to know how to get to it?

 

My ASC Notifications are already configured like that — I believe that is the default configuration — but I don’t understand what Notifications has to do with a defrag running at every bootup.

Already done.

 

Thanks, Tim. The thread you cited mentions Registry Defrag, which for some reason I’m not seeing in ASC, but I can just post my inquiry to the IObit forum, now that I know it exists. I guess I should have realized they would probably have their own forum. Thanks again.

 

http://forums.iobit.com/forum/smart...092-how-do-i-remove-boot-time-registry-defrag
Look at the image in post #10.

 

I know, but I did he see the image?

 

lol

 

Yeah, obviously it would be as easy as pie to toggle off Boot Time Defrag, once you got to the screen in ASC, shown in post #19 of the IObit thread, in which you can select the Boot Time Defrag tab.

But MY ASC doesn’t have a Boot Time Defrag tab that I’ve been able to find. It looks like this:



So, any suggestion on how I can get TO the screen with the Boot Time Defrag tab?

 

Click Toolbox and then Smart Defrag.

 

OK, the problem was this: I didn’t have Smart Defrag installed, so when I had previously selected Toolbox > Smart Defrag, the screen with the Boot Time Defrag tab didn’t appear. So now I just installed it, the screen in question appeared, I left the default of Boot Time Defrag toggled to “off” and rebooted, and Defrag did NOT run. So, mission accomplished. Thanks!

 

Hi, folks, and a happy new year!

I recognise that this is an old thread, but I have a related query.

I've just installed the latest version of Malwarebytes, and it reported this Registrydefragboottime.exe as a 'PUP' (two entries). This thread suggests that it's related to this 'ASC' suite... but that's not installed on my machine, and I don't recognise it. My best guess is that I may have installed it at some point, then uninstalled it, and I've simply forgotten that I did that. As a result, I've let Malwarebytes go ahead and quarantine this.

Please feel free to ignore this comment... unless I've done something totally daft