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jadinolf said:

Here's what I'm getting.

I was getting exactly the same, support tried giving various options but none worked. At last they admitted it's a bug, which would be rectified by new year, but still the same. Lost faith in MBAM paid versions.

Layback Bear said:

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How in the hell did Malwarebytes ever release 3.0 with this many problems??

Could it be that Malwarebytes did it like Microsoft did with W-10?
Both seemed to put their product out for the rest of the world to do the needed testing.
Obviously it's cheaper letting the world do the R&D rather that doing the needed R&D in house.

I would suggest to both companies that their reputation does have a value and these types of methods are not good for such reputations.

Just my opinion.

Jack

You may be right there, we seem to be the ones doing the R&D...

MoxieMomma said:

There's no credible reason to be running version 1.75 -- it has been outdated since March 2014.

As was explained HERE and HERE, the fact that version 1.75 may still be getting database updates for a few more months hardly matters. It lacks several important features, such as anti-rootkit scanning, as well as many, many improvements to the scanning engines and real-time protection capabilities under the hood (such as heuristic detection). Running version 1.75 now - even with current "databases" - is a false sense of security. It may be better than nothing at all, but it's not nearly as robust as version 2.x.

So I cannot fault Malwarebytes for removing their official download links to a program that is nearly 3 years out of date.
As for version 2.2.1.1043, at least for now, either of these download links ought to work:

https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/mbam_2x
https://data-cdn.mbamupdates.com/web...2.2.1.1043.exe

Cheers,
MM

Excellent points here, there is no reason anyone should be running version 1.75 now. For now the best version to run is version 2.2.1.1043. That version is pretty solid, and together with the stand alone of MBAE you will be pretty protected.

I now have both my home computers upgraded to version 2.2.1.1043 from version 1.75.

As for what happens in June, that rather depends on Malwarebytes. If version 3 is the only supported version at that time then it will need to be generally accepted as being fully fit for purpose which is clearly not the case at present. If it isn't, then my hope would be that they would extend the support period for version 2.x which is something I'd favour anyway as I'm none too sure about all the extra things about version 3 like it replacing an anti-virus program - not least because I don't think in relation to security that "putting all one's eggs in one basket" is ever a good idea. The appeal of running several different programs has always been that they catch different things, and expecting one program to catch everything is quite an ask. If it's fully compatible with the other programs that is one thing, but if not then that's a major problem.

On the other hand, Emsisoft seems to have built a good reputation for covering both anti-virus and anti-malware protection and that may be one option (among others) if MBAM version 3 isn't proven to be wholly viable at the point where support is dropped for version 2.x.

Seffrid said:

I now have both my home computers upgraded to version 2.2.1.1043 from version 1.75.

As for what happens in June, that rather depends on Malwarebytes. If version 3 is the only supported version at that time then it will need to be generally accepted as being fully fit for purpose which is clearly not the case at present. If it isn't, then my hope would be that they would extend the support period for version 2.x which is something I'd favour anyway as I'm none too sure about all the extra things about version 3 like it replacing an anti-virus program - not least because I don't think in relation to security that "putting all one's eggs in one basket" is ever a good idea. The appeal of running several different programs has always been that they catch different things, and expecting one program to catch everything is quite an ask. If it's fully compatible with the other programs that is one thing, but if not then that's a major problem.

They may stop the support for it, but most likely the definitions should work for version 2....

jadinolf said:

Yeah and it's run by a 28 year old kid and it shows.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Which one? "Nutella" is 49.

Marcin Kleczynski is the CEO of Malwarebytes and he is 28 years old...