starrigger

I just updated to the new version (1.46), and I see little or no improvement. It still takes 30-40% of CPU (37MB memory usage) when the computer is essentially idle, and spikes way up when I start something running. While I haven't seen any egregious slowdowns yet, I also haven't been doing anything very intensive. (XP, SP3) Also, nothing changes when I right-click in the systray and turn off protection, website blocking, and even exit the service. I have to forcibly End Process in Task Manager to make it stop.

Mine's at it again--hanging up there in the 80s and 90s on the CPU meter, for no obvious reason. I had a bunch of apps open, and experienced pretty noticeable slowdown, with the CPU running at 100% for quite a while, and MBAM being most of that. I closed some of the apps, but it didn't make much difference. With just Firefox, Word, Outlook, and Windows explorer open, it's staying pretty high. I expect I'll see it drop some when I close Firefox; I often do. This hasn't been happening consistently. It seems if I get a lot of stuff running, MBAM races, and then doesn't want to stop racing. Maybe it's just competitive.

OK, I did all that above (reinstall). At first I thought--hey, this is really better. I'd watch the CPUs in Task Manager while opening and closing and running different programs, and MBAM would seem to jump way up for a few seconds at a time, but then it would settle down again. However, the longer I followed it, the more it would seem to want to stay up in higher numbers. Finally, it was just like before. Except that this time, when I shut down all the other apps, it finally dropped, too. Then started up again, when I reopened programs. Hm, I just looked right now, and it had dropped again. So I'm not sure. I wish I could just keep an eye on the little systray CPU meter. But since Word also likes to hog CPU cycles when nothing else is happening, it's hard to monitor. I don't seem to be feeling the hit on performance that I was before. So maybe the reinstall did do some good.

Unfortunately, turning off website blocking had no effect on my issue. That's on my XP machine. I just checked my Win7 computer, and it's experiencing no such problems. I wonder if I should try reinstalling MBAM on the XP.

Closer observation indicates that the CPU usage shoots up--and stays up--when I use any of several common applications: Winword, Firefox, Calibre ebook manager. I'm working most of the time with CPU at 100% total, and a sizable chunk of that being mbamservice.exe. Effect on performance is sometimes quite noticeable, other times not.

I played with it a little more, and what really seems to torque it off is bringing up Memeo's GUI. That immediately causes MBAM to start gobbling CPU cycles. And doesn't stop until I turn off Memeo's GUI and let it run totally in the background.

I'm having a similar problem. I'm using Avast AV, but I haven't seen any indication of that being involved. I did notice that MBAM started cranking way up as soon as Memeo Autobackup started running, doing an automated backup to an external drive. MBAM's CPU usage is pretty relentlessly over 50%, though it jumps up and down constantly. It's not unusual to see it in the 80s and 90s. Turning off website blocking and protection seems to have no effect on it at all. Shouldn't that cut it way back? I'm using MBAM ver. 1.45.

Hah! I use Godaddy as my registrar (for my own author-site, www.starrigger.net). But the actual hosting is by a small outfit that gives great, personal service to members of the science fiction community. Not unlike the service I got here today.

Thanks. BTW, I'm in the U.S., so the dollar sign is correct.

OK, I think I've got it now. And now I've got the site allowed. It wasn't that your explanation was unclear, exactly, but there was a lot of information to absorb in that post. And I still don't quite have a handle on the safety aspects. For example, now that I've allowed that particular site, will it still block others at the same IP number (if, for example, I should happen on a link to one of the other, sleazy sites at that IP address)? Yes, I'm a writer. My concern isn't just to be able to get onto that site myself, but whether other members trying to get on will encounter the same problem. Anyway, thanks.

So in other words...the IP address does not go to a domain or web site, but to a server that can host multiple domains. Perhaps that's my misunderstanding. So a browser request goes to that server, which would then identify the desired domain? So if the people setting up this site happened to pick a host that also hosted sites that were on the blocked list, that would get their site blocked, too. Is that right?

Thanks. But now I'm thoroughly confused. I thought the domain name resolved to a numerical IP address that was specific to that site only. Are you saying that it took you to some kind of gateway page which, by the way, had a bunch of really suspicious-looking sites in addition to the one of interest? Or that the IP number points to more than one site?

Thanks. Here's the IP address being blocked: 69.60.10.2

Hi. The Authors Guild has just created a new website: WhoMovedMyBuyButton.com (to help authors monitor when their books have been taken down by Amazon.com). I can't get to it, because MBAM keeps blocking the site. I suppose it's conceivable there's an infection, but it seems to me more likely that it's a false positive. How should I proceed?

Thanks. It wasn't clear to me that the issue was resolved, as there were comments about replacing the file with a correct one, which left me at something of a loss. I've ignored, and am running a full scan, just to be safe.