Word and Excel don't work with Malwarebytes 3.0

[Sherm]

I recently upgraded from my previous version of MB to 3.0.6.  I have the premium version.   Now I can't open Word, Excel or any of my saved documents unless I quit MB.   What's the deal with this.  Is there a fix?

Edited April 15, 2017 by Sherm
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[Phone Man]

You can try this and see if it helps.

Go to Managed Protected Applications under Exploit Protection in Settings and turn off Word and Excel protection.

Jim 

[dcollins]

@Phone Man is correct. There is a known issue with MB3 and Anti-Exploit right now that should be addressed in our next release. Until then, the steps above are the only workaround

[Sherm]

Thank you so much to Phone Man and dcollins.  That worked!   What a relief.

[Hardhead]

I take it that this issue is with Windows 10.

Everything is good here on Windows 8.1.

[Sherm]

My PC is running Windows 7.  However, I was able to resolve the issue with Word and Excel as noted above. 

[FJM]

Thank You Phoneman, thought I was going crazy.

dcollins - any idea when the fix will be released?

[Buck115]

dcollins: I read another thread in this forum that problems existed with Office 2016 applications and the Creators Update. It is nice to hear that a fix is in the works for the next Malwarebytes release because I have a new computer arriving at the end of next week that will have Office 2016 Pro installed.

However, as a data point, my current computer has Office 2010 Pro installed and is running the Windows 10 Pro Creators update; so far the latest version of Malwarebytes doesn't seem to be causing me any problems with the Office applications.