corkie

I'm trying to clean up a mobile tablet using debloater but debloater can't find the device and there is no ADB interface in the windows device manager list. The attached screen grab may help.

I though a reboot might help. I shut down Malwarebytes using the tray option 'Quit Malwarebytes' interestingly MBAMservice kept going. I rebooted Windows and MBAMService, running hard, was back But no tray icon etc. See photo 'Malwarebytes not started yet' I tried to start Malwarebytes. It wouldn't start. see photo 'Malwarebytes will not start. So I shut down MBAMService using task manager's 'End Task'. This allowed me to start Malwarebytes. Now we have normal Malwarbytes with all real-time services stoppable and no cpu thrashing' See photo 'Malwarebytes normal.' Its a bit of a memory hog at 171MB but I'll put up with that if only it would leave my CPU alone.

There you go. Still blazing away. The last option (anti ransomware) is greyed out and won't switch off.

This is it mb-check-results.zip

We are back to an idle computer. Cleanup log file attached. mb-clean-results.txt

I'll give it a lash so and report back. Farbar is running at the moment so I'll let that finish first.

Hi Porthos. No. Computer supposedly idle.

We are back to this. Endless processing for what?

Not sure where to post this. I just revived (it was sleeping) a windows 7 laptop running malwarebytes 2.2. It was a bit slow to get going but looking at my log file I'd say that is all I will have to put up with regarding this weekend's crisis.

Excellent post there Ivan. You know that in this business the goal posts are always moving and the longer a company is in it the bigger they get and the harder they become to deal with. It will be interesting to see where this leads.

You are not looking at the big picture Bruce. So you had a problem and had a setback. Time to see what lessons can be learned and see how you might approach similar problems in the future. What you are doing is just a hysterical knee-jerk reaction. Be in no doubt the team at Malwarebytes will be doing some serious soul searching at present and you can be sure the product will be much improved as a result. Instead of running away why not ask them what they are doing about this.

Managed to get these grabs before the system went crazy and ran out of memory. Had to reboot and shutdown malwarebytes to get a usable system.

Righto. Yes CPU%. I put the system into flight mode so I could shut down malwarebytes and do a Defender scan and get rid of a few Hack tool exclusions Defender had acquired. I've just restarted malwarebytes and exited flight mode so I can do a bit of shopping. Defender is on but I haven't put in the exclusions you gave me yet. When I shut down malwarebytes while in flight mode it took a few attempts get MBAM to stop. At one point I used process explorer's kill facility to get MBAMService.exe to go away. It popped up again but the tray icon popped up with it and gave me a Quit button that worked. Right now malwarebytes has only been running for less than an hour and MBAMService.exe is not misbehaving. I'll do a screen grab if the bad behaviour returns. I'll sort the processes in CPU%. Thanks again for your help.

Well that was interesting. MBAMService.exe is back, hogging over 40% cpu. Defender is running. I had to manually update it's database. So we are exactly back where we started. I have a so called malware removal tool behaving like malware.

Wow. That did something. "never register Malwarebytes in the windows action center" just gave me my cpu back ! I'll have a go at getting defender going tomorrow. Thanks for your help.