Robolovsky

I am using the latest version and indeed as a computer professional often download a completely new version for each third party machine I am asked to clean up. MBAM has always been my tool of choice and will most probably continue to be. I was just a little surprised that one or two quite obvious threats have seemingly slipped through the net recently. Shopwit is pretty well known but was completely ignored and in the case of the most recent BHOs along with their myriad folders, files and registry entries, similarly missed. Thanks for the link to the article Firefox, it explains the situation very well and I appreciate that it only takes a slight variant of a known exploit to slip through the net. I guess I was just a little surprised to have experienced these misses having used MBAM many times over the years to great effect. Of course it could all be just coincidence so I am certainly not about to give up on what is undoubtedly a great program.

Maybe it's me but the last few times I have used MBAM to root out malware on different computers it does not catch everything and I often have to use other methods of removal. In the past with the older versions of MBAM I could run it once and the job was done. Specifically it has recently failed to find 'Shopwit' on one machine and only yesterday I had to do some manual removal of what were clearly malware related folders in my Program Files folder. It also failed to spot some malicious BHOs in Internet Explorer. These proved particularly difficult to remove as the Disable and Remove buttons had been, erm, disabled. Eventually I managed to do it using Sysinternals Autoruns. Maybe this is all coincidence but I have the feeling that MBAM is not as thorough as it used to be and that is a shame because it was always my malware cleaner of choice.

Right click protection is now working just fine on all machines. Seems all it needed was a reboot. Maybe that would have been a good first suggestion?

So you would like me to post logs from four machines? Surely you can see that this is a bug in MBAM. One of the machines I tried it on is brand new! It is not my system or any of the other systems I have tried this on that are at fault here, it is your programme. The last update acknowledged that this problem did exist and your engineers did attempt to fix it. This fact is logged in the version history. Obviously it is not completely fixed. There is no point in you looking at my system logs because logically it is clearly a bug in the programme.

Hi. I appreciate the quick reply but this has nothing to do with my system. I have seen that the same information is asked for whenever anyone mentions this bug and so far I cannot see that sending in the logs helps at all. I am an IT pro and as such have access to several computers. I have installed MBAM on three other systems all running fully up to date versions of Windows 7 64bit (as is my own machine) and the right click scan does not work on any of them. I have used MBAM for many years and never had an issue with any of the other versions. I am sure this is something you can reproduce and fix. It is almost certainly a problem at your end and not mine.

I have seen other posts in this forum regarding the fact that the right click file scan is not working in the latest version of MBAM. I would like to add my voice to this as a MBAM user of many years I have always been able to right click a file, choose Scan With MBAM from the context menu and get a quick result. Now when I do the same thing the MBAM user interface opens but without scanning anything. This is not anything to do with having the function enabled in the settings menu. Mine is enabled and the context menu is there. It's just that it does not do what it is supposed to do. I have always found this to a great feature and am now concerned that it does not work any more. Could someone please sort out a fix for this. I am using version 2.0.2.1012

Thanks for the information Yardbird but as you will see from my original post I was able to solve my problem by hooking up the drive as a slave to another machine and use the full might of MBAM coupled with a heavyweight AV programme to clean out the infected files. Boy wouldn't you like to get your hands on the people that perpetrate this stuff. Once cleared of the actual problem files I put the drive back in the original machine and was able to run MBAM properly and remove the relevant registry entries. A very neat and tidy solution with none of the risks involved with programmes such as Combofix and Ccleaner. Prior to doing that I had read endless articles about sending in a variety of logs from various malware removal programmes and then following a lengthy series of eradication procedures. Believe me, if you have the chance, slaving the drive in another machine is the way to go. Essentially my post was about finding a way to programme MBAM to prevent automated shutting down by rogue software. I am not sure if this is actually possible but it was just a thought as I had read that one of the infections on my machine had the ability to simulate mouse clicks. If MBAM were to remove the ability to abort the scan by clicking a button it may be one way of making it more difficult for the script kiddies.

I have read several posts here about certain malware infestations defeating MBAM by shutting it down shortly after the scan starts. This is clearly a major problem and one which I recently overcame by using perhaps the simplest method, namely adding the infected drive as a slave on another system and running the scan from there. However during the clean-up process I checked the symptoms of some of the infections found and discovered that several viruses have the ability to simulate mouse clicks. In other words my suggestion is that MBAM is sometimes being shut down by a simulated click of the Abort Scan button. This leads me to ask the question, could MBAM be improved by having a "no abort possible" mode. Essentially if the infection is seen to actively shut down the programme it can be run in a mode that does not allow shutting down until the scan is complete. I appreciate that the increasingly inventive malware writers may also find a way around this but it would perhaps be one more layer of self-defence for our favourite anti-malware programme.

Hi. I am running XP SP3 and just upgraded to the paid version of MBAM yesterday. I set the auto update feature for 1.p.m. each day and today was the first one. Guess what? Up came the message saying it couldn't update. So I opened up the consol clicked the update button and it updated instantly. Looks like this is quite a problem and not restricted to Vista!