Shaguar

I've only very recently able to narrow this down as some of the XBOX game pass games were not able to run after install. Here's what happens 1. Install game on XBOX game pass 2. Try to run game, nothing happens, system becomes sluggish. 3. Task Manager shows MBAM eating up 30-40% CPU 4. Game Process itself at 0% CPU seemingly unable to run I had assumed MBAM was just running scheduled scans and didn't think much of it and attributed it to old games that I was running having some issues with Win 11. However yesterday I installed Iron Harvest and was not able to get it to initiate even though the process shows up in Task Manager, its just stuck there and MBAM was at a constant 30%. I then realised it might be MBAM causing the issue because the scheduled scan just completed 5 mins ago as I got the notification so there was no way MBAM was running scans again. Since restarting MBAM service doesn't work or at least I can't do it anymore in Task Manager or Services, I disabled all real time protections and rebooted my system. lo and behold, Iron Harvest loaded, MBAM was at normal CPU utilisation. Closed Iron Harvest, rebooted with all real-time protections turned on, loaded Iron Harvest, same issue, MBAM CPU Utilisation shot up and stayed up, Iron Harvest process was running but not loading the game. I've since added Iron Harvest to the exclusion list however since I've had older games with the same issues before I figured MBAM real-time protection is the cause of this. IIRC this all started after 4.4. I'm running 4.5.8.191 atm. The last old game I had issues with was Galactic Civilisations 3 on Game Pass but it was only until yesterday I managed to make the connection to MBAM as to why it didn't load. Iron Harvest was just released so it should not have loading or compatibility to Win 11 issues.

Hope that's all you need from me. Headed to airport and won't be available for 5 days. dxdiag and msinfo NFO.zip

Please ignore previous log. I clicked on repair process and collected the logs while repair process was running. Here is the updated logs. mbst-grab-results.zip

@exile360 guess its one of those convenience vs security balancing act and yes most users (i would even venture to say 99.99% of users) never read the dialog and just click ok. I deal with this all the time throughout the last 25 years. Maybe a wishlist feature I guess, allow power users the option to do it but requires venturing into advance settings to do so, that way you satisfy the needs of the powerusers while balancing out the requirement to guard against users who don't read. @LiquidTension I haven't noticed it elsewhere but I haven't had to input anything elsewhere either. Please see attached log as requested. mbst-grab-results.zip

I didn't know about the tray icon menu that allows adding exclusion so I ended up clicking on the mwb notification window to manage exclusion (really stupid imo) and then have to manually input that exclusion. Wouldn't allowing adding of exclusion on that pop up notification make more sense? Anyways please see the attached image, the horizontal alignment of every character is off, basically creating a wave-like feedback. Is this by design? PS ignore the input itself, I found out comma wasn't a delimiter nor does exclusion take wildcards (feature suggestion?)

I was surprised when this came up in notifications. Any idea what gives? dnscrypt trojan alert.txt

Same here

eating up 17gigs of ram..... this is related to the license server issue. it's gone up to 19gigs of ram eaten as I am typing this

same here. just happened about 15 mins ago. web protection turned off by itself, after several reboots, I got the unable to contact license server.