Booting and running MBAM from USB drive.

[BrunoGenovese]

Today I got fooled into clicking a link that didn't go to the page it was supposed to go.  I noticed right away (before the page even displayed) and immediately closed the browser.  

Since I already had Windows Defender running, use Chrome instead of IE and have a few extra defenses, I realize the chance of infection is minimal but not zero.  Being pretty paranoid, I immediately downloaded MalwareBytes to run a scan using a second antivirus.  I've done this once or twice over the years and never had a problem.  But this time soon after I installed Malware Bytes the computer started freezing up and I ended up having to boot in safe mode and remove it so that I could continue with my safety scans using other tools.

The likely reason for the freeze up is a conflict with some of the other software I run on this computer.  The likely culprit is probably one of:

- Windows Defender

- Carbonite (probably not, since the problem persisted even after I disabled the backups).

- Stablebit Scanner (checks drives real-time for hardware failures).

- Stablebit Drivepool (think of it as a software-level RAID that doesn't go bad when the RAID controller goes bad).

But since those things are pretty core to how I run Windows 10, I cannot really remove them to run the Malwarebytes scan.

So... my alternative is to somehow setup and boot from an external drive so that I can run Malwarebytes and scan all of the internal drives.  But I couldn't find good instructions on how to do this, even though it must be a pretty common practice.  Can someone please point me to a link for a document that describes the steps to do it?

Thanks.

[BrunoGenovese]

Good news:  I used Norton's bootable scanner and it confirmed I have no malware.

Bad news:  MBAM definitely has a conflict with one of the above technologies.  

Worse news:  Not a single reply in this forum with a solution.  Not even from the staff.  Speaks pretty poorly of the product.

Given the above... I'm downgrading MalwareBytes into my "don't bother with it" category.  It is too bad, I always had a pretty good opinion of it.

Edited January 24, 2017 by BrunoGenovese

[AdvancedSetup]

Hello @BrunoGenovese

Part of that popularity has made it difficult to keep up with the amount of requests for help we get every day. If you'd like help reviewing the system let me know and I'll be happy to assist you.

Thank you

Ron