Malwarebytes breaks Windows subsystem for Linux

[amireldor]

Hello, was this fix released? dpkg was just blocked here preventing me from updating WSL. Do I need to reinstall WSL becuase it broke before and then future updates will run smoothly?

[Dheeraj]

Hello All,

A fix for this issue has been released in our ARW standalone release this week. This will be incorporated into the Malwarebytes Premium in the next Premium release which is slated for end of march 2018. For now if you would like to try out the fix on the standalone ARW product, it can be downloaded from https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/211708-latest-version-mbarw-beta-09-v-0918807-download/

Sincere apologies for the delay

[innoculated]

Hi - does the new MWB premium release 3.4.4 now have proper WSL support? I can't see it mentioned in the release notes:

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3.4.4 / March 6, 2018

Performance/protective capability

Improved remediation for shortcuts and tasks
Added better handling for heavily infected systems to streamline detection & remediation
Continued improvements to overall protection, detection and remediation
Usability

Added Notification Center for easy access to most recent real-time block notifications
Added category to website blocked notification to show the reason why site was blocked
Improved report design for better usability
Added device name to My Account screen in preparation to sync with My Account portal
Updated the API used to interact with Windows Action/Security Center
Changed the 'Recover if missed by' setting for Scheduled Scans to be enabled by default for new scans
Numerous other user interface and copy improvements 
Stability/issues fixed

Fixed issue where files did not save properly with anti-ransomware enabled
Fixed issue where notifications could stack so you might see multiple versions of same message
Fixed issue where Beta opt in setting would not honor Restore Defaults
Updated the 7-Zip library to the latest version, v.18.01
Improved upgrade process from earlier versions of Malwarebytes
Continued improvements to driver operation and management
Fixed several crashes, including a blue screen related to Web Protection
Addressed other miscellaneous defects

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Thanks 

[tetonbob]

Hi @innoculated - not yet. As Dheeraj mentioned above "This will be incorporated into the Malwarebytes Premium in the next Premium release which is slated for end of march 2018"

The fix is currently in our standalone ARW release.

It's also in our current internal test builds of Malwarebytes for Windows (MB3), which is still slated for release at the end of this month.

[innoculated]

Thank you - I'll keep an eye out for the end of March release :-)

[tetonbob]

Great! We expect your results to be what we're seeing in testing. I'll reply back to this topic once we've released.

[tetonbob]

Greetings, all. 

We officially released 3.4.5.2467 today. This build includes a fix for the WSL issue you've been reporting.

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/225664-malwarebytes-345-patch-release/

You can download it here https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/mb3/

Let us know your results.

[innoculated]

Hi Bob

Thanks for the fix and comms :-)

Sorry for the delay in replying - busy work period.

This morning I successfully installed WSL with Ubuntu on my machine with the latest MWareBytes official download and I was able to run and complete the sudo command in the original post. No error messages from either WSL or MWareBytes.

FWIW: I am a unix novice and I only want WSL as a simple learning environment.

[tetonbob]

Hi @innoculated - thanks for the feedback. That's great to hear! Keep us apprised in the coming days or weeks  

We look forward to hearing from the others in this thread as well.

 

[amireldor]

I had success in updating and upgrading my WSL installation with the updated malwarebytes release.

Previously, my apt-get failed as well as all the attempts to fix it. Now it ran flawlessly. Thanks. I might even be using WSL for some things now.

[tetonbob]

Hi @amireldor - thanks for your report and confirmation!