GPS being blocked?

[Cleatus]

so I babysit a bunch of squad computers.  they all have GPS--either the built in GPS (Panasonic) or the GPS on the Sierra wireless/Verizon card

 

It seems that all of the Sierra wireless card GPS is being blocked after updating to 3.2.2

 

I haven't noticed any pop-ups, but it looks like this is just on the sierra wireless GPS signals as of now.

 

I am trying to investigate, and get more firm proof, but was wondering if you have heard such a thing.

 

thx

[Cleatus]

I have one of the "broken" sierra wireless here now... going to switch to internal (Panasonic) GPS to test

[miekiemoes]

Hi,

This hasn't been reported yet though. 

Can you zip and attach the MBAMSERVICE.LOG present in the C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes\MBAMService\logs\ folder?

Thanks!
 

[Cleatus]

Note, I am not sure this is a MWB issue-- just happens after this install, win updates, and java update.

I wanted to see if you had heard of such a thing--please put this on "hold" until I do some more checking

 

[Cleatus]

still working it...going to try a little more systematic approach

 

the last laptop I updated it killed my gps--had to go to backup gps unit in the lapto that is on a different com port

(original, now dead  gps was on com3)

[miekiemoes]

Hi,

With "killing", do you mean, Malwarebytes actually deletes it? So its gone afterwards from the location?

Or do you mean "killed", that the process is only killed? In that case, a reboot should reload the process again.

So in case of the process only being killed, but the file is still present - then it's because our antiransomware behavior detection sees it as suspicious, but fails to do additional checks (most probably because the PC doesn't have internet connection). So that's why it takes the "better safe than sorry" approach and kills the file from running. It doesn't delete it. 

In that case, either connect to the internet, or add the file that gets killed to the Malwarebytes exclusions.