PGIV

I spoke a little too soon.... Although the 60 second delay did allow my PC to start without locking up, other undesirable traits popped up, like mini-freezes (a few seconds) every few minutes. As soon as I turned off MBAM's Active Protection, the mini-freezes went away. I'm leaving the Active Protection turned off for now.

The 60 second delay Registry hack did the trick! Thank you.

Yes, I have the "load protection module' unchecked, which is the only way I can get MBAM to play nicely with VIPRE and keep my PC (s) from locking up on startup. Essentially, by unchecking the "load protection module at windows startup" I have turned my paid version of MBAM back into the free version. In checking the VIPRE forums, many are having the same problem with the paid version of MBAM and its realtime protection. There was mention in the VIPRE forums that Malwarebytes had entered into some sort of a partnership with Sunbelt Software (makers of VIPRE). Perhaps the two companies will eventually get the two products to play well together (or better yet, integrate MBAM right into the VIPRE AV/AS software).

I am not using VIPRE Premium (the one with the firewall). I am not having any problems getting MBAM updates. The problem is that I can't turn on "Enable protection module" or my PC locks up on the next reboot. BTW, this happens on all three of my Windows XP machines.

If you read the last sentence in my second paragraph, you would see that I have added those files to the 'always allowed' list in VIPRE. I am using no other firewalls except the Windows Firewall. I am not using VIPRE Premium, which does include a firewall.

I have been using the free version of MBAM for years with great success. I recently purchased the paid version. I'm running MBAM 1.45 and my AV software is VIPRE (4.0.3248). The problem is that when I check "Enable protection module" in MBAM and reboot, my XP Pro PC locks up right after getting to the desktop (probably during the loading of VIPRE). VIPRE never finishes loading (no icon in Task Tray), I can't bring up Task Manager, and clicking on any desktop icon does nothing and I can't do a proper shutdown. The only thing I can move is my mouse pointer around the desktop. I have to hit the reset button, start in Safe Mode and disable the MBAM protection module. I have already added mbam.exe, mbamgui.exe, mbamservice.exe, zlib.dll, mbam.dll, mbamext.dll, rules.ref, mbam.sys and mbamswissarmy.sys to the VIPRE's "Always Allowed" section. Any suggestions? Anyone else using the MBAM protection module successfully with VIPRE 4.0.3248?