ALARM! Malwarebyte's Antimalware users: condition red!!!

[Skybird]

If you use MBAM and have not already noticed, they just have had a serious and very major FP incident that equals a reactor meltdown. I am typing this froma backup laptop currently.

For the time being, immediately shut down MBAM and deactivate the update function until they get there homework done for sure. One update this night started a quarantining frenzy on vital windows system files, and even MBAM itself. They made many people very happy with that. Some companies may even sue them into nirvana over this. I shared the symptom of being locke dout of my system, account not recognised after reboot, and needing some backdoor tricks to get at least into the coinsole mode to return to a restore point - only one was left, luckily from 3 days ago - all others had been deleted. W7 has the nice feature to restore also deleted files, so that losses in my sys32 folder were replaced, it seems. Earlier windows versions do not do this - you then must hope that you can move the many dozens of system files in quarantine back into windows. I am in the process of saving data and files as backup. Maybe I can escape the need to reinstall, I'll see latr in the night.

Follow this thread for hints, updates, advice. Do not run MBAM until they confirm here that it is save. The falty database update is alredy removed, but since they are in hectic stress, I do not trust their results before some more dust has settled.

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index...owtopic=125129