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Thanks for the good explanation. I think I was looking at the Quarantine screen and not seeing the check boxes and confusing it with the Show Results screen.. And earlier I was mostly completing scans with no found malware and thus getting the notepad screen so I was then going to the Quarantine screen and also confusing it with the Show Results screen. I just did a full scan that picked up a bunch of malware and displayed the Show Results scrren with the check boxes. I don't know what happened to the missng files after the earlier scan but I'll have to leave that alone unless it happens again. Interestingly, on the full scan, not all of the malware listed had checks in their boxes. Does this mean anything?

I don't see where I can uncheck anything. After a scan, MBAM presents me with a Notepad screen showing a text file of what happened. As far as I can tell, any bad files shown on this screen have already been removed...and hopefully placed in Quarantine. Looking in the Quarantine tab, I still don't see anyplace to uncheck anything. I know I can use Restore, but I want to prevent a file from being removed by a scan. Could you show me exactly how to do this? Thanks

Then it looks like there is no way to prevent MBAM from deleting (removing) a file it thinks is bad. I'm glad to know that now...I'll use the program much less in the future as there are plenty of other programs where the user can control the resulting action after a scan.

After running MBAM, there was a list of 8 malware found, including the file names. When I checked the first two results looking in their folders for these bad files ( wanting to run the suspect files through Virus Total to confirm their badness), I discovered they weren't there. I checked the MBAM quanrantine and they weren't there either. So the MBAM results log shows and names these files, but they've disappeared from their folders. Is it possible that MBAM is deleting suspect files even though I have it set to "show in results list and do not check for removal". The scanner settings tab is the only place I've found where I can make this choice. Am I missing something?

When you say you no longer "support" Win2000, what does that mean? No tech help, or what. It's working fine so far on my Win2000 machine. But it's too bad that the many business's still using Windows 2000 are being overlooked.

I just updated my Malwarebytes free program, and there was the message urging me to switch to Windows XP sp2 or I would be in great danger (or something to that affect). Is this an early warning that Malwarebytes will cease to function in Windows 2000?