"Malwarebytes needs to restart" pop up message

[guest11]

Hello, I recently received a pop up message (not the lower corner notification) telling me that Malwarebytes needs to be restarted in order to update.

This is something I've never encountered before and I was wondering if this was a legitimate message. I am using version 3.3.1 free version.

[Porthos]

1 hour ago, guest11 said:

This is something I've never encountered before and I was wondering if this was a legitimate message. I am using version 3.3.1 free version.

Sounds legit. Do you have a screenshot?

[guest11]

No, I did not get a screenshot. If it helps, here's some more information I can recall.

The message came up tiled on top of the Malwarebytes icon. It gave me the option of restarting Malwarebytes now or later. I clicked now, mbam.exe and mbamtray.exe both closed and reopened. My AV firewall then notified me that each of them wanted to connect to the internet. While the message box was open, I did notice that on the UI it was on "Updates: Applying".

I also checked the directory where I have MB installed and it created two new folders called LKG and sdk. I'm not sure if that's relevant or not.

If anyone can let me know if this is standard behavior or something else it would be much appreciated. Thank you!

[dcollins]

This is something new that can happen during updates, it has to do with updating different components that weren't being updated in this manner. It is safe and nothing is wrong.

[guest11]

Thank you very much!