Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2 released

Hello kronckew:

The Malwarebytes' staffers would appreciate the opportunity to analysis your Diagnostic Log Sets by attaching them to your own topic in Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Help.

Thank you.

 

Ah EMET - it has great potential, but currently it is still voodoo in my experience. I bet if you remove it the problems with MBAM will go away.

 

Hello Victek:

As attractive an idea as that is, (and definitely should be considered) I too run a maximized EMET 5 TP2 w/MBAM2 in an always on, W7Pro64SP1 system and I've never experienced a freeze or BSOD in 2.5 years.

I am hoping one of the sharp-eyed staffers will recognize something in the requested diagnostic logs.

Please never let me discourage your ideas.

 

done, thanks. awaiting their reply.

 

I'm also interested in what the logs show. Regarding EMET when I tried it it reminded me of those dungeons and dragons games where you spend the whole time wandering around in the dark until something bites you LOL. I hope it will eventually come pre-configured for apps.

 

Fyi, W7-32 and W8.1-64 both run fine wih EMET4.1 and MBAM 2.0.2.
I wouldn't necessarily expect it to run flawless with a beta, even if it's a TP v.2.
Once 5.0 goes final, I'll see if MBAM gives a peep.

 

Added MBAM 2.0.2.1012 back to my netbook. I once thought it was the contributing to a boot up slowdown on my netbook so I ran my machine for a while without it. Installing latest version of Avira(262) led to a speed up over the previous version (350).

 

What's going on with MBAM 2.0.2.1012? Checked - scan for rootkits > did a scan > comes up with Unknown.Rootkit.Driver >
mbam.sys as detected item that MBAM wants to quarantine. Their own file. Never had this issue with v.1.75. I take this to be a false positive. Maybe they need to work on their integrated rookit scanner.

 

Are you going to Alert MBAM Staff?

 

Checked the mbam.sys file on metascan & virustotal. Scanned with GMER rootkit scanner.
All came up clean. Went to Malwarebytes forum and found this:

Post#1: Has 7 unknown rootkit drivers including mbam.sys. Aware of problem.

malwarebytes

Not good when their own file gets detected when rootkit scan is checked.

 

Avira has a longstanding, serious issue with slowing boots. It's unusable to me because of that.

 

Yesterday when I wanted to update MBAM it notified me that there were no further updates available for the free version 1.75 and offered to download version 2.0.2.1012 which I accepted. It removed the old version. Don't care much for the new version though (UI) as well as before I could do a right click scan for 1 particular folder/item which now doesn't seem to work for me. (yes I ticked the box for Explorer context menu entry) When doing a right click scan in MBAM for just an image or file it seems to do a regular threat scan, thus not the scan I want.

 

I tried MBAM 2.0.2.1012 , but reverted back to 1.75 because of what I posted earlier. MBAM 1.75 is still being updated as I just installed the latest defs about 10 minutes ago.

 

Must b just your end I do scan for rootkits weekly and never a problem here.

 

I scan for rootkits also. Did you check "scan for rootkits" in MBAM 2.0 before doing a scan?

Also check post #685 and the Malwarebytes link. I'm not the only one with this problem.

 

yea

 

Thanks Compu KTed. I reverted back to 1.75 and the below picture is what I get every time I open MBAM. Therefore I have to press cancel every time I want to use v 1.75. Darn! Do you get same box?

 

MBAM GUI > Settings > Updater Settings > uncheck top 2 boxes.

 

Brilliant! Thanks so much!

 

Yes same box. J_L is right about unchecking the boxes in MBAM . I forgot to mention that's what I did also.



Malwarebytes 1.75 support: (Post #39)
Like we've have done with previous versions, we'll continue to support the previous version
for one year after an update. We released 2.0 in March so support for Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
1.75 will continue until March 2015.

https://forums.malwarebytes.org/ind...malwarebytes-anti-malware-175-released/page-2

 

Thank you so much Compu KTed for the additional info re MBAM 1.75. Good to know.

 

So how's version 2.0 in terms of stability and usability?

I think it's time to look for my old license key...

 

Version 2.0.2.1012 has been downloaded by so many for which it just simply works.

 

BSOD's every time I scan. I had to go back to 1.75 until they fix this bug.

 

at least your system is yours and he have his. just install and try out.