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Nope, it wasn't, they rushed it to meet their deadline and paid dearly for it. I've had great luck with it myself. Hopefully SP2 won't break anything (from what I've heard most of the patches included have already rolled out through Windows Update). My biggest issue with Vista was that at the time of it's release to OEM's the level of hardware wasn't quite adequate to run it decently. It was like having a bunch of PC's designed for Win 95 released to market loaded with XP. If they would have waited just 6 more months, most of the performance issues would have been non-existent. You have to remember, when Vista came out XP had been around in retail since 2002, that's a long time. Of course, I'm running Vista on hardware from 2005 (with the notable exception of my video card) and it runs great.

Here's some more info about it: http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8755 Amuzing video as well.

@Mad Dog Vee: Yup, they patched it. @DaChew: But as far as I can tell, it's all based on the same code as Vista so I don't understand why it's being seen as such a big improvement. The biggest change I've seen is the new Taskbar which I don't like, but the majority, if not all, of the underlying code is identical (or at least it will be once SP2 for Vista is released). @QuizMaster: Have a look at this MS knowlegebase article for the info: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=961367

You're very welcome. Regarding Autoruns, it's kind of neat how it works, it backs up the reg keys to a to a different location in the registry called "Autoruns Disabled" so even if the program was run portably and isn't on the machine anymore, you can see what's been modified by looking there. It's powerful too, as it also works on services, drivers and bho's. It's one of my all-time favorite tools.

Greetings and welcome to the forum. The reason these keys get flagged is because they often get modified by malware, however in Vista, the default settings are the opposite of those for XP so you should simply add them to the ignore list in MBAM. You can have a look at this thread for more info: http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=7653

I believe it does, and I'm fairly certain that RogueRemover does as well. I still see those darn ads on TV all the time.

You got it. For the most part cookies are pretty much harmless and easily removed using the internet options control panel in IE, or using temp file cleaners like Ccleaner and ATF Cleaner. MBAM's designed to remove the nasty, hard to remove malware that most other security softwares don't detect or remove very well, if at all.

I usually use Sysinternal's Autoruns myself, I like the fact that it shows so many locations for startups and uses a simple interface (and of course can disable instead of delete). I thought StartupLite did as well, but from your posts it appears I was mistaken.

Greetings, unfortunately at the moment the realtime protection in MBAM doesn't work with Vista x64 and neither do it's drivers. As far as I know the developers are still working on it but Vista x64 is a bit more difficult to deal with as far as kernel access goes, so I wouldn't even venture a guess as to the timeframe. @GT500, That is correct, 32bit does have the capability to address 4 gb of ram, but as far as I know, only through certain hacks/tricks and the programs you run have to be compatible with it to be able to use it, which most 32 bit apps aren't because they're programmed with a system only containing 2 gb or less most of the time (although there are exceptions).

I was thinking about going with an i7, but man that ddr3 is expensive, so I was thinking older tech=cheaper price (not that I can afford any of it right now). I do have a Sapphire HD4870 1gb right now though, which is nice. edit: You think we took this a bit off topic?

Agreed, that's why for my next build (which I can't yet afford) will be a system with at least 16gb of address space (probably one of the newer intel chipsets) and I'll load it up with some stoopid amount of ram like 8gb and use my 1gb video card.

Ah, I guess that's what I was thinking of (the 2gb limit per app). Still, at least for Vista, I do recall people saying that even when they installed SP1 and system info showed 4gb (or more) it still only used 3.25gb. Much like my system now (as I said before about my motherboard limiting it) Vista shows 4gb in system properties, but taskmanager etc show only 3072mb, and I believe this is the same for those using 32bit, at least that's what I recall reading.

I'm not sure, but I'm thinking if you click the link inside StartupLite that it reenables them. I could be wrong, however.

Congrats on another year of life (you are still among the living right? )

Yeah, you'll get more hits with a-squared because (as I recall) it uses the same detection methods as a typical antivirus (md5's, file signatures etc) so it ignores the fact that the file is inactive and disregards the file's location.

Ha ha, nice Chewy, nice

Greetings ddamm, and welcome to the forum. First off, if you're doing you're test on threats that are just sitting in a folder and not active on a system, MBAM will most likely not detect them (it's because of the way it's detection algorithm works). Second, many files that would be detected by a typical antivirus (especially somewhat older infections) will not get picked up by MBAM because it is designed to catch the difficult threats that most AV's miss.

Ah, for that, all you must do is run MSCONFIG and select the option for Normal Startup, it should put everything back the way it was before you ran StartupLite. If it doesn't, then let me know.

No problem, and you are very welcome. Thanks for visiting, and if you need anything else please let us know!

Actually, that's not the case, all they changed is the fact that you can see it when you show the computer's properties, it still can only actually address 3.25 gb of ram. note: McAfee Virusscan (personal) does work with x64: http://us.mcafee.com/root/package.asp?pkgid=276 and so does Norton: http://community.norton.com/norton/board/m...thread.id=20128 (note the 3rd post in the thread from the mod).

Hello, the error you got happens rarely and is usually due to a corrupt database file and reinstalling (as you already did) usually fixes it. The reason there's no file in quarantine is because it doesn't get quarantined, it gets changed from a 0 to a 1 in the registry. This is because the item detected isn't actually malware, it's just a setting that determines whether the Help and Support item is shown on the Start menu. It often gets disabled by malware and this is why Malwarebytes' corrects it. Some users (like myself) prefer not to show the Help and Support item on the Start menu, so I simply have it added to the ignore list in Malwarebytes'.

That's because it doesn't use the same method as MSCONFIG to disable startups. It uses the deletion of startup keys in the registry.

Generally it will update the program version as well. The only reason it becomes necessary to uninstall one version before installing another is if there are problems with the software after upgrading.

Ah, I see. Well I hadn't tested it with a 1gb system, and for Vista (32 or 64) I always recommend at least 2gb anyway, especially if running games or doing any semi-heavy to heavy multitasking. 3gb is best for 32bit and with 64bit, the sky's the limit. I unfortunately have an old motherboard that only supports 4gb of addressable space and doesn't allow me to change the IRQ addressing, so I'm stuck using 4gb as 3gb because of the bandwidth used for my video card and other hardware on the board. But even with only 3gb and an old Pentium D 830 my system runs Vista great and plays games, multitasks and runs all my security software in the background no problem.