Malwarebytes opens and closes on Startup

[TripleJ]

When I booted up my laptop today, I noticed MB appear and then disappear on my taskbar. This has never happened before, so I was wondering what could have caused it.
Is this normal? Could I be infected? I'm using the free version, if it's any help.

[Porthos]

3 minutes ago, TripleJ said:

When I booted up my laptop today, I noticed MB appear and then disappear on my taskbar. This has never happened before, so I was wondering what could have caused it.
Is this normal? Could I be infected? I'm using the free version, if it's any help.

Let's try and get some logs first so the team can review them and see if they can tell what may be causing your issues....

1. FIRST: Create and obtain Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST) logs Tell any program that blocks it to ignore or allow. It IS SAFE.
2. Download FRST and save it to your desktop
   NOTE: You need to run the version compatible with your system. You can check here if you're not sure if your computer is 32-bit or 64-bit
3. Double-click to run FRST and when the tool opens click "Yes" to the disclaimer
4. Press the "Scan" button
5. This will produce two files in the same location (directory) as FRST: FRST.txt and Addition.txt
   NOTE: These two files will be collected by the MB-Check Tool and added to the zip file for you
6. NEXT: Create and obtain an mb-check log
7. Download MB-Check and save to your desktop
8. Double-click to run MB-Check and within a few second the command window will open, then click "OK"
9. This will produce one log file on your desktop: mb-check-results.zip
10. Attach this file to your forum post by clicking on the "Drag files here to attach, or choose files..." or simply drag the file to the attachment area

[TripleJ]

As it turns out, what popped up was the MBAM Tray Application. I thought this was a bug in a previous version that was fixed?
It also said the file was edited on the 12th, so I assume this may have been an update with an unintended side effect.
I know that when it usually started up, it appeared in the tray. But, not anymore.

Edited December 13, 2017 by TripleJ
Forgot to add extra information

[Porthos]

20 minutes ago, TripleJ said:

I know that when it usually started up, it appeared in the tray. But, not anymore.

The requested logs would be of help.

[TripleJ]

I will try to get the logs as soon as possible. I'm rather scared, because there's no news on an update for MBAM Tray Application.

Edited December 13, 2017 by TripleJ
Needed more information.

[dcollins]

There was an update we released last week which is slowly rolling out to people, you could have gotten the update yesterday

[TripleJ]

37 minutes ago, dcollins said:

There was an update we released last week which is slowly rolling out to people, you could have gotten the update yesterday

Ah, that explains it. I assume what happened was just a small side effect. Thanks for letting me know!