RAM usage - what is going on?

[daman1]

1 minute ago, DannyG said:

Same issues here.. Just along for the ride

I have not read all 20 pages of this thread, but is MB aware of the issue and working a fix?

Yes there on it

[Vroberts]

My system updated when I was not there.  I returned to a dead screen and hot machine. I did not know what happened.  If the update had required my approval, I would at least had a hint about what program was causing the problem.

[johan1012]

Having the same thing here, my PC crashed when i was afk, i rebooted it and went for dinner, came back 10 mins later and malware bytes was at 10GB ram. uninstalled it for the time being. 

was also getting messages webprotection was off and that it could not contact the licensing server.

[RustyLemon]

Well at least I'm not alone... hahahaha

[daman1]

1 minute ago, deay said:

I have a ton of VM boxes that just crashed as a result. This is NOT fun! LOTS OF CUSTOMERS calling in as well! This really pissing us off here!

I lost work this morning from this lucky it wasn't to important.

[bclajr]

7 minutes ago, cyraxote said:

My computer didn't crash or reboot. I killed the service and disabled it. Killed it again a few times, and done. No muss, no fuss.

If you've really had 25 years of IT experience, you'd know that this is an incredibly minor if annoying problem. At this point, it requires nothing but patience. And maybe avoid the porn sites for a while.

You seriously have no idea what you're talking about. Just because you had that fix doesn't mean you can put this blanket of ignorance over all the people that are having this problem. like many of these people, I had tried your fix before I cam here with no avail and honestly I  personally don't watch porn. 

[Jeannedb]

Same issue here and Opera ended up crashing. 

[Blasturbator]

It might be something to do with windowds defender antimalware update. Windows defender just updated its antimalware exe and associated .dll files about 15 minutes before MB started using enough RAM for me to notice something was going wrong (about 21GB of RAM) and i now have an "Antimalware Service Executable" showing on my task manager which i have not seen before today.

[dragonandante]

Ah ok, so it looks like it wasn't just me but rather widespread issue. I had to boot in safe mode and uninstall the program the get use of my computer back. 

[FelixKlein]

My computer has crashed 3 times in the last hour since MB has updated... also web protection is no longer active. 

What is going on here??? I didn't pay for this program to be a bigger nuisance than an actual virus.  

[Chama13]

Same here. It used all my 32Gb. Also this week my PC was slow as hell (not because of high RAM usage, because it started today). Real-time web protection won't turn on also.

[WhatIsGoingOn]

Holy stuff. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I’m so distressed right now I don’t know what to do. I didn’t mean to do that to my mom but I’m literally in shock from the events tonight. I feel like I’m going to explode. Why the censoreding censored is Malwarebytes eating up my ram? This can’t be happening. I’m having a censoreding breakdown. I don’t want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Malwarebytes  to be fixed and protect my computer again. I cannot censoreding deal with this right now. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, I thought Malwarebytes wasn't having any issues with memory leaks??? This is so censoreded.

[banzaigtv]

33 minutes ago, Breach said:

I uninstalled ;-) Now I have an undeletable Malwares folder which even admin cannot delete...

Had the same problem here. I renamed the folder and was finally able to delete it.

[csaustin]

[Br0seph]

About a week ago Jan 14th my MBAM stopped doing Real-time protection and I had to uninstall and reinstall to get it to work. Might be relevant.

Today same issues as everyone. Real-time protection notification then RAM exponential / until finally crash bluecreen / restart and same / uninstalled until  more info.

[JimZiii]

Best fix for now is turning off the autostart with os option and then reboot, the process kept restarting after being terminated.

Crashed twice because of this b.s

[ya_paid]

4 minutes ago, DannyG said:

Same issues here.. Just along for the ride

I have not read all 20 pages of this thread, but is MB aware of the issue and working a fix?

As someone replied on a previous post.

The below staff member replied on this post and his profile page may indicate a notice of a fix.

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/profile/1495-shadowwar/

[Marbin]

Like 3 months ago got 2x 2-Year licenses for my PC and laptop ..... and now i have to uninstall MB.... great job guys

[bclajr]

Just now, FelixKlein said:

My computer has crashed 3 times in the last hour since MB has updated... also web protection is no longer active. 

What is going on here??? I didn't pay for this program to be a bigger nuisance than an actual virus.  

You should just disable it or uninstall until they fix the problem. there is no working fix right now.

[TritonB7]

LOL

[AtelierFotografico]

Italy,

same here.

I have a wedding video editing to finish by tomorrow !!!!!!

[Stufish]

2 minutes ago, bclajr said:

I personally don't watch porn. 

I absolutely believe you.

[ToniCipriani]

1 minute ago, Blasturbator said:

It might be something to do with windowds defender antimalware update. Windows defender just updated its antimalware exe and associated .dll files about 15 minutes before MB started using enough RAM for me to notice something was going wrong (about 21GB of RAM) and i now have an "Antimalware Service Executable" showing on my task manager which i have not seen before today.

You might be on to something, when I sorted by memory and CPU usage, Windows Error Reporting and the Antimalware Executable were both going nuts as well.

And speaking of which, the last version @shadowwar mentioned with a potential fix, 1.0.3799, did not fix it. Still going crazy with memory.

[tonguetwister]

What I wound up doing was to boot into Safe Mode with Networking, but *not* to uninstall Mbam. From there I both Stopped and Disabled Malwarebytes in MS Services (services.msc).

 

[Tchanam]

Same problem..    Version 3.3.1.2183 just eats RAM until it is all used up then it starts paging.   Eventually it crashes.  Version on my laptop that has not updated to this version (using version 3.2.2,2018 is only using 78MB of RAM.   Please roll back and fix this issue.s issue.