Malwarebyte releases major fail update (again)
 

They did a stunt of comparable dimensions already three or four years ago.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/new...amservice-exe/

They claim another emergency udate pushed sinc ethen solves the issue, but I will play it careful, and when launching my Windows machine in a few minutes, will do so without internet on booting, then deinstall MBAM Pro and leave it like that for the next two or three days, observing.

Its too much computer-sh!+ happening recently. I cannot escape the feeling that computer technology maybe reaches kind of a cesura. As if they cannot keep the ghosts they called under control any longer: too complicated.

I am wondering anyway whether MBAM still is as good as it was int he past. while researching this issue above, I found quite some hints and forum threads on the web where people complained about theta since release of MBAM version 3 the memory share used by MBAM went way up, while its detection quota went way down. Quite some people said that although they still have a life-long license they have deinstalled it. 200 MB in RAM usage, I recall that it was like that on my system as well (MBAM is currently deinstalled here since some minutes).

Anyone in knowledge of changes in MBAM reliability?

I use this so appreciate the heads-up :cool:

I installed the latest Mbam version a few days ago, then suddenly a lot of things did not work anymore. Called up restore point a week ago, did not work. Because of Mbam did not allow it.. so deinstalled Mbam, restore point reste, all seems to work again.
Which is a shame, since Mbam is the only real working help against ransomware.
Never install it on a server in a working environment though!

Thanks for the heads up, I was wondering what was going on with it. I will uninstall and wait for further word on it.

... man... :wah: - not again... sigh... thanks for the heads-up Skybird. Updates disabled (again) :salute:

I just had a slightly different experience. I have the free version, and a few days ago they told me they had a new update available. I thought that was cool, so I downloaded it and rather than an update it was a one-week free trial for the full pay-for version. I didn't mind it and it does seem to do some cool real-time protection stuff. On the other hand there I can't really afford it and I'm certainly not going to pay after they sneak it onto my computer under the guise of a new 'update'. I let it expire and won't be buying it. I will, however, continue to use the free version as it is very good at what it does.

Same happen here Steve to me a few weeks back. When it got down to the last 24 hours I got pop up's telling me to upgrade. Pain in the rear for that time but once it went back to the free version the pop up's stopped. Like you I will stick with the free version.

I have a lifetime licence for the pro version. I uninstalled then took a chance and reinstalled it, had to put in my licence number, it updated, and all was well again.

MBAM was using up all my RAM. After restarting it I saw in the task manager that it was slowly using more and more memory.

It was quite a shock to see 99% physical memory being used in the task manager. All 16GB of it. :o

I think if you want to be safe for the time being, use not the Pro version (there seem to be more issues with it, as indicated in my second post), but use the free version. The free version has no live protection running in the backgorund, and is only a passive scanner that you manually must launch for a single scan. Until nobody tells me something different I will assume that this version is safe to use for manual scanning once a week or so, causing no stress on the resources when not being called up for scanning.

(Or do they have changed this, too? I base on knowledge of how it was years ago before they abandoned their lifetime license scheme. )

With the free version, you have no live protection, do not forget that. Its just a manually launched HD scanner.

Its a shame, since MBAM is the one security suite that has ran more positive alarms and fewer false alarms than any other software of this kind that I ever used. I considered it to be extremely valuable. It also cooperated nicely with pure AV software (which MBAM is not, its specialised on types of malware that AV easily can miss).

Since I use the Windows rig only for game launching and nothing else, I consider my risk level to be relatively low anyway. For evertyhing else, I use a Linux laptop.

Noel Carboni ticks the same way like me - only that he knows all this stuff many, many times better than I ever will:

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topi...m/#post-162973

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01..._patchy_patch/

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