You are tasked with remediating adware for a host using a custom script via Real Time Response (RTR). When running the script, you get an error that the script is timing out.
The correct fix is to set the -timeout argument to a longer period. Custom remediation scripts can take longer than expected, especially when they enumerate files, remove persistence entries, clean adware components, or wait for operating-system operations to complete. If the script is valid but exceeds the default execution window, extending the timeout gives RTR enough time to complete the task. Setting timeout to “off” is not the correct approach because response commands should still have controlled execution limits. Simply rerunning the script may reproduce the same timeout failure. Changing a console-wide timeout policy is unnecessary when the command-level timeout argument can solve the issue directly. In RTR remediation, tuning execution parameters is often required for longer-running scripts.
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