MBAMService.exe is a HOG!!

[DeeCee]

Hello - this file belonging to malwarebytes uses waaaaaaaay too much memory - 271,2841k right now - way more than the program I'm running.  I saw a couple of previous threads discussing this memory hog, but didn't see a resolution, work around, or any real answer that I'd feel comfortable doing.  I have like 16gb of memory on this laptop, but I do play a memory-intensive game and wonder if I can safely disable it while I play or if there are any other suggestions to reduce the super huge size of this file.  Please advise and thanks.

[dcollins]

That's an average size for mbamservice at the moment. We're working on some improvements to our memory footprint to reduce this though.

[DeeCee]

That's wonderful - but I guess in the meantime I shouldn't delete it huh?  Or suspend it via task manager?

[dcollins]

Deleting/suspending mbamservice.exe will effectively turn off your protection, so definitely not recommended. If you're in free mode, you can feel free to quit Malwarebytes since it shouldn't be doing anything while not scanning