ralatmby

OK. I can do that. Thanks.

By "make a complete image", do you mean you copy all your drives? That would take quite a bit of time and more blank drives than I have.

Ah. I will be sure to create a restore point before running any "portable" program. Thank you.

Thank you dcollins. I did not know that. I found it set to "Always register Malwarebytes", but I think I may have ignorantly changed it.

I will avoid Zemana. But I am curious, how did you delete Zemana portable? I use Revo uninstaller, which should have found and eliminated the drivers. It scans registry and file system for leftover items after the program's own unistaller is done.

I feel this should be the default, perhaps with the notification: "Click here to disable Windows Defender. This will unset the Windows Action Center setting 'Never register Malwarebytes in the Windows Action Center'".

Thank you Digerati. Done. I cannot say whether a reboot was necessary. It was time for one anyway, so I did one and now action center says "Windows Defender is helping to protect your computer".

Thank you Gonzo. It was the big white box, which I had left blank because I did not see anything that indicated what should go there. When I typed in a body the topic was accepted.

I use malwarebytes 3 [home] premium and am happy with it, but I would feel a little safer if I had another antimalware program, obviously one that is compatible with mbam. I was using MS Security Essentials on my Windows XP system and it actually found a virus that mbam did not, or at least did not tell me about [perhaps MSSE stopped it before mbam had a chance]. I have Windows Defender, of course, on my W8.1 system, but apparently it has been disabled. I have tried Avira, but consider it too obtrusive. AVG appears incompatible. Avast seemed OK on my XP system, but I have not tried it on W8.1. In short, I am hoping to get some advice as to which free antimalware program the experts at this forum would recommend. Thank you, ralatmby [Robert Leeper]

" There should not be any reason you cannot create a new topic. If that is the case, respond to this post with a screenshot and someone will assist you."

How do I get it? I would expect something in "messages", but there is nothing.

Ihave a registry hack that I have done myself and want to keep [it prevents logoff from appearing on the start menu]. MBAM 3 keeps finding it and I have not been able to find a way to tell MBAM 3 to always ignore it.

I should add that the popup should STAY UP LONGER.

Hi. You need to make it easier to -> selectively disable <-, like a box to check on the popup when a site is blocked = "Add this IP to web exclusions". Cheers