I have a bad habit of leaving my computer on overnight because I want to come back to what I was working on the next morning. But my computer goes into sleep mode after the timeout and usually there is no problem. Sometimes things start to go a bit wonky and I have to restart - but after all - it is Windows!
But this morning something very different! When I woke my computer up, first of all, my VPN software said that it had crashed and it wanted me to send the crash log - done. So I decided that I would shut the windows I had open and restart the computer. After restarting, I noticed that all of my usual startup programs had loaded normally (including my VPN and virus/firewall software - McAfee), but Malwarebytes had not loaded. Once in a while, for some strange reason this happens and I have to load it manually. So I went to load it manually, but could not find it in my programs list form the start menu. So I opened control panel > programs and features. Malwarebytes did not appear in there at all! Somehow, it was uninstalled. Could it be that McAfee uninstalled it, notwithstanding that I had entered the MBam*.* files as exclusions in McAfee scan settings?
I am currently running a McAfee full scan, which has found (and fixed) 5 issues. What those issues are I don't know because McAfee does not say while it continues to scan. Perhaps once the scan is complete (I'm around 67% now) it might provide more detail in the log file(s).
Has anyone else ever had this happen? I thought McAfee and Malwarebytes played nice together in the sandbox - maybe I am wrong!