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Greetings Heckler. Please have a look at this topic, it should answer your question: http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8068 As far as free AV's go most around here (including myself) recommend Avira because it's detection rate is much better than AVG.

Heh, yeah, I think that's the first full moon I've ever seen during the DAYTIME!

Recently I don't recall seeing anything like this, however, a while back in when Vundo first started to explode on the scene, one behavior I did note was that when many rogues installed through a trojan, links to other rogue downloads would be placed on the desktop, although the other rogues themselves were not installed (but they would be if the links were clicked and they were downloaded by the user). Often it would be a rogue anti-virus or anti-spyware that was installed and links to rogue registry cleaners and rogue defrag/optimization software on the desktop.

Yup, it's a powerful tool and it keeps getting better because the researchers and developers behind it deal with real live infections, not unlike the ones you yourself had, every day and determine how to kill the buggers. They offer a free help forum here when an infection comes along that Malwarebytes' doesn't remove, then when they're helping the user clean their PC manually, they get samples of the new malware and add it to the definitions. It's helpful and incredibly effective for staying on top of the latest threats.

Greetings arbiterx and welcome to Malwarebytes. Please try uninstalling the program, rebooting and then reinstalling to see if that fixes it. Let me know how it goes.

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I don't know, I've been using Vista since it was in beta and I love it. From what I've seen of 7 so far, it's basically Vista with a few minor changes/enhancements, but the basic code is the same. Compatibility of software and drivers is expected to be identical to Vista (which was the cause of most of the anti-Vista sentiment around the web).

You're very welcome. Funny thing is, most problems are easy to fix, the hardest part is often figuring out what needs to be fixed. Diagnosis can be a pain. Good luck and safe surfing.

Greetings secureme and welcome. From your description of the issues the first place I would start is with your connection to the internet. First check the manufacturer of the NIC's support site for driver updates. Then, if you have a second PC to test with, connect it to the same router or modem you're using and see if it has any of the same problems, if it doesn't then the problem is isolated to the troubled PC.

Certainly, you can get an installer for the definitions here: http://www.gt500.org/malwarebytes/database.jsp Please note that Malwarebytes' is updated very frequently and the update installer is not updated as often so the definitions you get there won't be the latest, but they will be pretty recent.

B) Yeah, I remember the Tiger (always looked kinda like a leopard to me).

Greetings kicket. Welcome to the forum. I'm sure you'll learn a lot here, I know I have so far and it's a really nice community, enjoy your stay.

Greetings and welcome to the forum. Sure thing, I'll give it my best. First off, for a good definition of what the word "byte" means, take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte Second, that particular phrase is the Malwarebytes' slogan and I'm guessing is used to denote that the product is increasing in it's ability to detect and eliminate malware as time goes on and as more and more people download the product. It probably also has to do with the fact that this site is very active and the developers are always collecting new samples of malware (malicious software) and adding it to the definitions for the product. I hope that was a sufficient response (as well as accurate). One of the actual developers may jump in here and respond with a better answer, but this would be my interpretation of their slogan. Thanks for signing up to the forum and if you need anything else, let us know.

That's a beautiful structure, and the bridge isn't bad either B)

I love autoruns just because it's simple and effective, and easy to undo changes (it doesn't delete items if you uncheck them, it just moves them to a key under "autoruns disabled"). Very handy if I screw something up.

Cool vid. Really shows off the "nastiness" of those rogues. Nice Vista skin by the way.

Thanks for the correction GT, I should've remembered that but lately I've got total overload from all the reading and research I've been doing at MRU. I think my brain's about to start oozing out of my ears.

Yup, I've had it for a long time. I can't use MBAM because it's protection module doesn't work in x64 (which is what I'm running), but SAS's does. Once MBAM is x64 compatible I'll be switching, not that SAS isn't a great product, it is, but in my opinion MBAM is better, and more powerful at actually removing really nasty threats.

For MBAM, normal mode is always best as it gives it a chance to catch malware while it's active. Generally speaking, you also only need to use the Quick Scan for MBAM to find all the active malware it can on a system.

No idea, but from what I've read around the KL forums it seems the detection is the result of the heuristics Kaspersky uses to detect new trojans and trojan-like programs so without completely redesigning their detection engine/algorithms it would be impossible for it to be whitelisted unless each time a new version of MBAM were to be released, it was immediately sent as a sample to KL to be specifically whitelisted in Kaspersky's defs, and of course would still be detected on users systems if they didn't have the absolute latest Kaspersky sigs before downloading the new version of MBAM.

Yup, it's been an ongoing issue, probably because of the drivers MBAM installs or the way it's compressed/packed. The funny thing is, I've been using Kaspersky for years and have yet to see one FP related to MBAM, I do know they happen however as I've seen many users such as yourself where Kaspersky is flagging it.

Greets and welcome heir. I'm enrolled at MRU myself (just started). You'll probably see me there as I work on my studies.

Yup, you can whitelist it. It's a false positive (note I'm running Vista x64 as well).

For AV, Avira functions very well on Vista x64. Spybot Search & Destroy's Immunize function works with it as well as Spywareblaster (both are useful for passive protection against malware). Comodo Boclean works in x64 and is light on resources and MBAM works well as an on demand scanner (the realtime protection for MBAM doesn't yet work with x64).