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Yes, it is from Malwarebytes and the instructions I provided above will eliminate it if you don't want to upgrade to the latest version (though obviously we recommend you do as the latest build offers the best protection and there are several great new features in the new release).

You're welcome. If there is anything else we might assist you with please let us know. Thanks

I'm glad to be of service

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Greetings, You may install it if you wish to do so and if you have use for it. You can find additional information about it on the following pages from Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/credential-guard-how-it-works https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/credential-guard-protection-limits https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/credential-guard-considerations There are also several other related resources listed on the left of the pages I linked to above that provide further details about different aspects of this new tool from Microsoft. I hope this helps and if there is anything else we might assist you with please let us know. Thanks

Sure, no problem at all. I was just continuing to dig is all, and it might help the Support guys once they get here in troubleshooting the issue as well to give them a few additional ideas of where to look. Once they collect more detailed data I'm sure they will be able to determine what is going on with the software. Thanks for your continued patience.

Greetings, Once Malwarebytes has downloaded a new version that is awaiting installation it will unfortunately display the notification prompting you to install it quite frequently. I believe this has been corrected in newer versions, however for older versions a workaround must be applied. You have already changed the notification settings for updates which is the first step; the second step is to disable the option to have Malwarebytes check for new program version updates when checking for database updates. The final step is to delete the installer file located under C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes\MBAMService\instlrupdate and then restart your system and that should eliminate the notifications, however please let us know if it does not. You may also refer to the information in this support article for additional details and instructions if the above steps do not eliminate the issue.

Are you referring to the redirect/block page that Malwarebytes normally shows in the web browser when a website is blocked? If so, then that is a fairly common issue and one I experience often myself (I often don't get the tray notifications either, however blocking still works as I've tested it to verify it; I suspect in my case it is due to the fact that I am using DNSCrypt). I do not know all of the potential causes, however if you are using any kind of proxy, alternate DNS, or VPN then it is very likely that you will not always see the redirect/block page when a website is blocked by Malwarebytes. It just goes with the territory when using an alternate network configuration unfortunately. At least that has been my experience, and this has been the way it's worked for years in my case.

You still get all of the real-time protection and scheduled scan functionality in Premium. All registering with the Windows Security Center does is enable Windows to monitor the status of your AV/AM's protection and updates; items that Malwarebytes (and basically all other AV/AM products) monitors itself anyway, so registering in Windows Security Center is not a requirement.

Have you tried actually removing Avira yet just to test for certain that the issue isn't being caused by some kind of conflict/issue with Malwarebytes and one of its background processes, drivers or other components? I realize I keep harping on Avira, but I just want to make absolutely certain that we are able to eliminate it as a variable completely. While we await a member of Support to assist, I also noticed that you have an HP Z600 running Windows 10 which, at least according to HP's support site, doesn't have any available drivers from HP for that operating system (I'm guessing due to the fact that it likely shipped with an older operating system). If you haven't yet, I'd also recommend checking your individual hardware components' manufacturers' websites for any available driver updates to see if getting those patched up helps at all as many issues can be the result of outdated drivers. In particular, any network drivers (such as for your Broadcom ethernet adapter), your wireless card/controller if your system has one, your graphics drivers (i.e. Intel, Nvidia or ATI/AMD), your chipset drivers (Intel), your storage controller drivers (Intel as well in this case) as well as any firmware and BIOS updates (I spotted a few on HP's website, though I don't know your exact configuration so I don't know precisely which ones would or would not apply to your system). The support page I found is here and depending on your precise hardware configuration, we should be able to aid you in tracking down any available driver updates for your individual hardware components if required. Just let us know.

I'm sorry to hear that the system crashed, but I am glad that Malwarebytes is working now. If my suspicion was correct, it was probably caused by the infection(s) that seemed to be present on the system. Oh well, at least the system should be clean now and you now have Malwarebytes up and running. If there is anything else we might assist you with please let us know. Thanks

Thanks, it appears you are using an alternate DNS (CloudFlare's new 1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1 DNS) and you also have Bitdefender's firewall active in addition to that so my guess is that one of these might have redirected the site to 127.0.0.1 which resulted in the block. With that said, I don't know for certain that either is the actual cause of the issue so we'll need to wait for a member of the Malwarebytes staff to check and confirm. Thank you for providing the logs, they should be most helpful in troubleshooting the issue. There is still a slim possibility that this is being caused by some kind of malicious activity, however I doubt it but we will need to wait for a member of the staff to know for certain. In the meantime, if it was due to anything malicious the fact that it was blocked is good as that means your system was protected from the malicious site, however if it is some kind of false positive or conflict or some other issue with your particular setup they should be able to determine that as well. I'm sorry that I couldn't be more helpful, however I did try visiting the site on my own system using 2 different browsers with both Web Protection in Malwarebytes disabled as well as Malwarebytes Browser Guard disabled and I could not get anything to come up. The page just timed out so it might simply be an issue that the page itself is down or not functioning for some reason on the server side.

Thanks for the update. Yes, there are known compatibility issues currently with Malwarebytes and 360 Total Security. I will be sure to inform the Product team about this ongoing issue and hopefully it will be resolved in a future release. Please let us know if there is anything else we might assist you with. Thanks

To be clear, I've only heard this info regarding patch J introducing the issue in Kaspersky 19 from one user, however it also happens to be the only user I know of for certain that decided to alleviate the issue by rolling back to the older Kaspersky build, so while it is somewhat anecdotal, I do consider it to have merit and expect that anyone who installs patch J on version 19 to experience the same issues we've been observing with the latest Kaspersky 20 builds.

Yeah, that's for sure. I mean I never expected that they would ever implement a storage interface based on PCI-Express, but now we have NVMe, and with the newest generation hardware supporting even faster standards like PCIe gen 4, things are only going to accelerate. Over time technology will evolve and speed up as it always has, becoming ever more efficient as it does. Years from now we'll look back at my statement about how fast my system is now and laugh at the thought that what I had was fast compared to the current tech of those years to come. The only thing that never changes in life is change itself. It always comes whether we're ready for it or not, it is inevitable.

I'm not so sure about that. Modern PC's, tablets and smart phones and other devices are pretty efficient these days. Every time they go through a node shrink and/or architectural optimization or re-architecture they increase their overall efficiency so that they can do more work faster with less power and generating less heat. For example, my little 15.6" laptop is by far the fastest, most powerful system I have ever used. It makes all of may former massive desktops look like ancient calculators in comparison. It's like comparing a modern super car to an old Ford Pinto. It's just a completely different class of performance on a level I never dreamed of, and it is cooled by 2 tiny copper heatsinks and 2 mini laptop fans. It's incredible. That said, they could always do better, and efficiency becomes very important as form factors shrink and batteries get smaller as portability becomes increasingly important. This is why ARM has been so successful of late with their extremely low power chips. As for instant-on, we pretty much have that now with modern NVMe PCIe based SSD's. It only takes seconds to boot my system from a full shutdown, and most of that time is spent going through the slow BIOS splash screen where the system is initializing the hardware before it starts loading data from the drive. Once Windows actually starts to load it only takes maybe 5~7 seconds to get to the desktop, and only about 3~5 more seconds for all of my startups to finish loading and things to settle down to full idle (and I have quite a few startups as I'm quite excentric with the overclocking tools, system monitors, numerous security applications and sidebar gadgets so I could make it much faster if I stripped it down to just the bare essentials), and I don't even have the latest fastest drive they offer. It's 1.5 generations behind at this point (there is the 970 Pro and 970 EVO Plus which are both faster than my 960 Pro).

Real testing by pen testers and against exploit POC's would help even more. I'll be checking for such data, especially if I decide to go with their solution.

Greetings, I'm not sure what is happening there, but the IP address 127.0.0.1 is actually the localhost/loopback address for your system. This means that any page that points to that specific IP address will not actually connect to any outside server/website and will simply behave as though it cannot connect (this is actually how blocking sites via a HOSTS file works, where they will typically use the same loopback address to redirect known malicious websites and ad servers to 127.0.0.1 so that they are blocked when you browse the internet). If you are using a HOSTS file and the page you were redirected to was blocked in your HOSTS file, that could explain why Malwarebytes Browser Guard is showing the block page in the image you posted. You can run the following tool and it will display the contents of your HOSTS file in the logs so that we can check if you wish: Download and run the Malwarebytes Support Tool Accept the EULA and click Advanced tab on the left (not Start Repair) Click the Gather Logs button, and once it completes, attach the zip file it creates on your desktop to your next reply Thanks

Yes, it is simply due to the change in behavior implemented in Windows Defender in Windows 10 for it to automatically disable itself (rather than leaving it to the AV to do it) whenever it detects any other application registered as virus protection. This can be overridden by changing the setting in Malwarebytes to force it not to register with the Windows Security Center.

Thanks for the info. Please let us know how it goes if you decide to test them. Hopefully the issue is fixed in Kaspersky's latest update.

Greetings, Thank you for reporting these issues. I will be sure to pass your feedback on to the Product team for review and hopefully these issues will be corrected in an upcoming release. Please let us know if you find any other problems or if you require assistance with anything. Thanks

Honestly I do this anyway. It blocks a lot of stuff that Web Protection doesn't, not only because it has several additional databases to block additional categories of unwanted junk (non-malware ads, clickbait, tracking servers etc.), but it also has additional behavior based blocking techniques that cannot function from the outside/network stack/WFP layer and must be executed from within the browser (like behaviorally blocking tech support scams and phishing sites), quite similar to how many modern ad blockers like uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus will behaviorally block certain types of pop-up/pop-under ads and the like (they couldn't do that if they operated via WFP the way Web Protection does; you can't see a page's actual content/the rendered images, the layout, banners, individual windows and the like from outside the browser). It's still best to have both if possible, but at least having one fully functional and the other at least partially functional is still a lot better than not having it at all.

Hmm, 0patch. I never heard about them, but it looks interesting. I'll have to do some research and see if I can determine if they are for real or just blowing smoke. Apparently they've been around for at least a few years and they've made some headlines on the web in the past so perhaps they are for real; at least I haven't stumbled across anyone saying that they're not yet, so that's always a good sign.

I guess the only remaining question is speed. Energy consumption is not the only consideration with regards to RAM, especially modern classifications like DDR4 which is in most modern systems, the upcoming DDR5 JDEC standard, GDDR5/GDDR5X, GDDR6 and HBM/HBM2 which are used on modern GPUs, and upcoming standards like HBM2E, all of which must operate at extremely high speeds with ever growing amounts of bandwidth in order to keep the cores of CPUs and GPUs fed with data. A single solution would be ideal that replaces both, is as fast as the fastest DRAM, and is capable of retaining data for at least as long as a modern NVMe SSD as this would eliminate multiple bottlenecks for PCs and other computing devices (including game consoles; the next generation of which are boasting new storage technology that should dramatically reduce or even eliminate load times, even in large games with high resolution assets, which in effect would be the same level of performance delivered by a hypothetical 'all-in-one' type of storage medium). Intel's Optane technology has been on the market for a while, providing a relatively affordable means of increasing speed and throughput from storage to DRAM, however this is more of a half-measure more suited to servers where the scale of things is increased massively over standard desktop computing devices. HBM/HBM2/HBM2E are pretty much the fastest forms of memory on the market right now, with bandwidth and speeds massively exceeding those of more traditional VRAM solutions like GDDR5 and GDDR6, however their high cost and increased cooling requirements (particularly since they must be situated pretty much right next to or even within the GPU die to eliminate trace latency) often makes them prohibitively expensive, and in real-world benchmarks they don't show the kinds of increases in performance over GDDR5 and GDDR6 based solutions in more everyday applications like games; they do however provide significant increases in many professional workloads such as machine learning/AI and some professional 3D and 2D rendering applications. A solution like what they are proposing in the article you posted is definitely intriguing and could be part of a great shift in future technology, however it all depends on how long it takes it to get to market and what other more standard creators of volatile memory have accomplished in the meantime, because they certainly aren't standing still either. In fact, one of the big benefits of HBM2E is that it requires less power, produces less heat, and is much cheaper to produce, with overall higher yields than previous versions of HBM, so the current generation of GPUs may be the last cards we see anything other than HBM on at least mid-range to high-end gaming and professional graphics cards. It is definitely an interesting time in computing hardware.

It probably has something to do with the way that the browser extension works within the browser. It is possible that somehow it is able to block the connection appropriately without being affected to the same extent by the presence of the VPN since it doesn't work from the network stack/WFP layer like Web Protection does, though I do not know if this will be the case for all blocked sites. If it is though, then that could make it a viable alternative, at least for protecting your web browsers, which are generally the primary exposure point for most malicious connections/sites after all.