khemion

Respectfully, just because the patch/fix worked for me personally doesn't make me a "troll," and neither does it make me an employee or otherwise an avid proponent of MB's products and treatment of its customers. I do agree however that this new trend of things automatically updating without my permission is downright ridiculous.

OK so here's what I did... (I'm not very knowledgeable of computers in general, so bear with me if my language isn't correct): - While MB was having memory leak, went to task manager and ended MB process... it re-launched itself a couple times but stopped trying to launch after I disabled web protection (which had been turning itself off and on repeatedly) and ended MB task a few more times - Rebooted pc, disabled MB while it was starting itself up, went online to investigate - Was directed to this forum post so I followed the instructions... ensured web protection was still turned off, updated MB, rebooted pc, re-launched MB and turned real time web protection back on. As of this morning (~8:50am PST) MB has been running at normal memory usage (around 255mb as of writing this, compared to 12K+ which crashed my computer earlier) and I've run a couple full scans to test it out. Everything appears normal so far, to the best of my understanding: To answer your other question, I'm afraid I can't provide much input there. I'm pretty certain that I'm real and in human form, but metaphysics goes way over my head.

Issue resolved for me. Thank you!

Greetings, new forum user here, came to discuss the same thing. Had an interesting morning with 98% CPU usage, unusual performance and a bizarre, glitched-out BSOD. Being a new user I thought MB was fighting an attack of some sort, gave me a fright. But then I saw a BleepingComputer article which mentioned some sort of update giving users trouble, so hopefully that's all it is.