JaCo_BRZ

I was talking about the computer registry, not about Malwarebytes licenses.

Only if you want all the stuff that Malwarebytes shoves into registry left.

No what the person said was that having that information on the dashboard by default with no way to remove it does not help anyone. Further, what is shown is not helpful. It's scare tactics. Most of the time it's just an error that that system hasn't ran a scan.

You still don't understand anything that this thread is talking about. Literally no one is asking that they not have the feature available. What's being discussed is that it being displayed on the dashboard of the client with no way to remove it from the dashboard is bad design. The entire purpose of this thread is to say that the other devices section on the dashboard of the client should be something that can made to not display on the dashboard of the client. You being able to have it show on your system is fine, but people also should be able to have it not show on the systems whose users have no reason or need to see it.

You think that, but you would be surprised at how many people who know what a scam is regularly fall for these scams.

You have two computer illiterate people who are not going to understand what any of that means. So when a scammer has them open up Malwarebytes, points at the other devices, and says those are other people on your computer; those computer illiterate people are going to believe the scammer. No one is saying that you can't have the other devices section listed on your dashboard. What we are saying is that the other devices section should allow for it to not be included on the dashboard.

Exactly! Adding this list to the normal client is only introducing a way for fear to be introduced to the users. In fact it adds a way for scammers to get on a system and claim hey there are all these other people connected to your system. Even if there is only one connected, because no one typically knows what the device name or their computer is or means.

Everyone does need it to be editable. Everyone might not use it, but they do need it to be.

No, it is exactly the opposite of what he originally said. He originally said that it was being released later and not currently. Then he said the exact opposite. So I said he needs to make up his mind. As you will need to do later in this reply. It is the opposite of careful to roll out a new version of any software to people who do not know that they are getting a new version where literally all support for it is limited to the Beta forums. The people coming to your website to download Malwarebytes are not coming here to download a beta version of the software. They are coming to download the version that is "Rolling it out" to new users who have no knowledge of the product and no knowledge that they are being given a product where the only support for it requires them to go into the beta forums rather than the support pages of your own site is the exact opposite of rolling it out in a very controlled fashion. You literally are sending it out to people who have no way to know that anything is wrong because they have no reference point for the software working correctly. You need to be more hung up on what the legal definitions for officially released are. It means exactly what I think it means, but not what you think it does. Officially released does mean everyone can get it and that everyone knows that they are getting it. What you are doing is a bait and switch. Your site is advertising v4 as being what people are downloading as it shows that they will get the version of the software that has the support on the main page, not the version that is only supported by digging through the beta forums where no new users should ever have to go without having chosen themselves to have downloaded the beta version. Now you have contradicted yourself in the same paragraph. A release cannot both be fully supported and have limited support. So make up your mind. Because I can prove that v5 is not in any way fully supported by Malwarebytes just by going to the support section of your own webpage. No, the only version that is actually fully supported by Malwarebytes is v4. The only place to find anything about v5 on the website is to go to the Beta Forums. That is not what anyone who downloads Malwarebytes from your website will or should need to go to get help with issues with the software. You are sending out a Beta version of v5 to a bunch of people who have never used your product because they won't complain about changes that have been made to make the software worse. So then when you release it to the people who do know what the product should work and has behaved previously complain about it you can provide misleading statements like well we rolled it out over several months and did not have any issues. At least be willing to admit what you are doing.

No previous versions showed a list of other devices using that license on the dashboard either. Before, while there was a desire for the dashboard to be able to be edited, there was not a need for it to be. Now there is most definitely a need for it to be editable. Not everyone needs to be able to see the device list.

Malwarebytes v5 is out today, at least it is being given to anyone to comes here to download the current official version, but there is no information posted about how to do anything. How do you remove information that has no business being on the dashboard? For example, how does one remove the list of other devices? Everyone on a license does not need to see the other devices on that license. If someone has malwarebytes installed on their child's system or an elderly parent's system, neither of those people need to see the other devices. Also, if the subscription does not have Online Privacy, then that doesn't need to be shown either to be honest, at least not to the extent it currently is.

Make up your mind. Either v5 is officially released or it is not. You do not get to have a product not be officially released but be an official release.

Yes, as is the Free Download Link on the main page. ALL links I have done today on multiple systems have given the new v5. Yet they are claiming that it is not officially released. No new users of any product should be given an unofficial version of the software without their full knowledge when going to the official download site.

It is utterly incompetent and unprofessional to randomly give people, much less completely new users, who go to your website to download the OFFICIAL version of Malwarebytes and then instead give them an UNOFFICIAL version. Much less an UNOFFICIAL version which has no actual support for them. They are not going to go to go into your forums and dig around a Beta forum for the information. If you are giving new users the link to the new version then the new version is out now, no matter what you claim otherwise.

I suppose today counts as the early part of 2024. It is what the download link gives now but the site doesn't really have anything telling you how do anything with it, so not the best start.

I'm rather curious how this fix works at all. I had a system doing this, and the Block penetration attacks was already unchecked and the settings under "Application Behavior Protection" were the same before resetting to default as they were afterwards. Yet, before resetting the defaults the Quicksave macro on Word will trigger a response from Malwarebytes preventing the save, but after resetting it there was no exploit detection triggered.