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Three women die together in an accident And go to heaven. When they get there, St. Peter says, 'We only have one rule here in heaven: Don't step on the ducks!' So they enter heaven, and sure enough, There are ducks all over the place. It is almost impossible not to step on a duck, And although they try their best to avoid them, The first woman accidentally steps on one. Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw. St.. Peter chains them together and says, 'Your punishment for stepping on a duck is to Spend eternity chained to this ugly man!' The next day, The second woman steps accidentally on a duck And along comes St. Peter, Who doesn't miss a thing. With him is another extremely ugly man. He chains them together With the same admonishment as for the first woman. The third woman has observed all this and, Not wanting to be chained For all eternity to an ugly man, is very, VERY careful where she steps. She manages to go months Without stepping on any ducks, But One day St.Peter comes up to her With the most handsome man she has ever laid eyes on ..... Very tall, long eyelashes, muscular. St. Peter chains them together without saying a word. The happy woman says, 'I wonder what I did to deserve being Chained to you for all of eternity?' The guy says, 'I don't know about you, But I stepped on a Duck.

Thanks for that. I'll try it in the morning, it's nearly 10 pm here. Appreciate your comments & feedback.

Murphys Law: if anything can go wrong it will, and at the worst possible moment. Guess I was too quick off the mark. Although my browsers did speed up substantially after removing MBAM 2, they've slowed down to a crawl again a few hours without MBAM installed, so, sorry about my earlier post. If I could delete it or modify it I would. Told you I was anxious! I've also rebooted my computer and network and router and still have the prob. Must be an ISP matter I guess. I'll do some helpdesk calls with them in the morning to see if they can help. Apologies again for jumping to conclusions.

Hi, I've just resolved one problem with MBAM 2 (random dashboard popup panels, discussed in another thread in these forums, by doing a MBAM Clean and reinstall after rebooting), but now I have a new one. Performance loss. All my browsers (Firefox, IE, and Opera) get stuck not downloading web pages for minutes at a time. Eventually they get there, sometimes they don't. This has only happened since the clean reinstall of MBAM 2 yesterday keeping the default settings. I thought it was the PC, I thought it was a virus, but multiple reboots and full scans didn't fix it or find infections. I checked in the task mangler to see if anything was stealing my CPU cycles, but the CPU was running at only 20 % or less and the biggest users of that were well-known to me. Also got a BSOD, which is significant because I almost never get those in Win 8.1, indicating something wrong with the IRQ priority (sorry I didn't write down the whole message, I was tired and frustrated). So I turned to what was new - and uninstalled MBAM. Things went back to normal straight away in my browsers. I really wanted to use MBAM because I've used it for years alongside my SEP client and it picks up stuff SEP doesn't. But now MBAM Vergion 2 messes with my PC so much I can't live with it any more. Never had this problem with the earlier versions. My PC: Lenovo ThinkPad Core i7, 8 GM RAM, Win 8.1 Pro 64 Bit Paul

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Are there any license differences between the consumer/premium edition and the business editions? if so, where can I see the differences? Thanks.

Here's how I answered: If someone answered No, and they were being honest about being dishonest, then they should've answered Yes, they are being honest, but that would've been dishonest so they should've honestly answered No, which would've been incorrect to indicate they were dishonest when they were being honest about being dishonest. So there's no correct answer. Got another question?

Thanks for the feedback Ron. I was running the cleanup from a Win 8.1 Admin-level account, there were no messages during the clean process to say that there was anything blocking anything, and there were no security popups from Symantec Endpoint Protection V12.1.4013.4013, which was disabled during the process anyway. Does the clean tool create a log file anywhere that I can send you or post here (if it's not confidential)? Please advise. I can confirm it's now been behaving itself for about 24 hours, so it's looking more promising that it's solved now, so that I'll call my problem fixed. Thanks. And special thanks to daledoc 1 for all his/her help in getting there. Paul

And yes, I did reboot the computer after running it too.

Ok I'm with you now. it's 1 am here so I'm a little slow I used mbam-clean-2.0.2.0 from the link in your earlier post. I was just curious because the clean instructions said the license data would be lost but it was in fact retained (everything else was lost). I figured maybe the clean tool was based on V1 of MBAM, not V2. Just a thought.

Hi, so far over 12 hours I haven't had the dashboard pup up by itself and steal focus since I did the Clean utility process. So thanks for that tip. Looks like a go-er! I installed version 2.0.1.1004 which was current at the time as far as I could tell and it still hasn't prompted me to install Version 2.0.2.0. Also, I had the Self-Protection disabled when I ran the MBAM clean process. Cheers. Paul

Thanks again. Yes I'd rebooted the PC after the install. Based on your comments, I've now done an uninstall and clean of MBAM, rebooted, reinstalled the current edition (same version I had) and refreshed the definitions, and rebooted again. Strangely it remembered my license codes, so the "clean"er wasn't all that thorough. I've left all the settings at default and ran the "first" scan ok. We'll see how well it behaves over the next 48 hours. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll post back here when I know either way. Paul

Thanks for the quick reply (on a sunday too!), but that doesn't do it. Here's my version info: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0.1.1004 © Malwarebytes Corporation. All rights reserved. Build Date: 4/04/2014 The problem is the dashboard itself popping up and stealing focus whenever it wants to start a scan, which seems to be several times a day regardless of the settings. If some people want to see it, that's fine for them, give them an option to enable it. I don't need the reassurance because I can always check the logs or dashboard/Scan page itself to see when the last scan was run.

Hi, my platform is Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit on a touchscreen convertible ultrabook with Core i7 processor, 8 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD. I hae a licensed version 2 of MBAM. All updates have been applied to the OS and MBAM. Problem is since Version 2 came out I keep getting the main screen of MBAM pop up and stealing focus several times a day. I NEVER want this screen to pup up, not ever unless I tell it to. The notifications in the corner were all I had and needed under earlier releases and they didn't steal focus, but this new behaviour really stinks. I go to click on something and MBAM pops up out of the blue and my click goes into that instead. it's worse than a distraction. It's counterproductive and interferes with my work. I never want this screen (never got it under the earlier versions of MBAM and I've been using it for years). Please help me get it to go away. Turning notifications off didn't do it. It still pops up the main window out of the blue and tells me its starting a scan. So what! I only wanna be disturbed if it finds some nasties. Hope there's a solution for this so I don't have to remove it to stop this new nuisance-ware.