giapet Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204301 Share Posted January 27, 2018 This morning I was poking around on my laptop- only Chrome in the foreground, with MB premium running in the background, plus steam, and a few normal windows processes and junk. (I just reformatted last week.) Suddenly my computer started running very slow. I closed chrome first because it's more commonly my culprit, but the computer remained sluggish- it took a few minutes to launch Task Manager. I was surprised to see Malwarebytes service listed at 5,300-6,000mb, and I couldn't even open the program to see if it was scanning. I rebooted and launched ready manager and watched MB quickly work it's way up to the same 5gb range. I successfully ran a scan to see if something was going on- no results, though I noticed it had disabled my web protection. Computer is still running slow, MB is still running at about 5,600mb, and it doesn't seem to want to turn back on Web protection. It kind of just hangs on "Starting..." and eventually gives up. I'm new to the software, I used to use Avast. Any advice? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldone Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204334 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Yeah holy stuff just noticed my computer slowing down with malwarebytes is eating up 10 gb of ram. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrytasker Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204335 Share Posted January 27, 2018 (edited) Same here it was up to 10000, before i shut down the service. Then i restarted Malwarebytes and its at 8000Mb at the moment....and going up! Edited January 27, 2018 by harrytasker Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafalek21 Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204338 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Same thing for me, I had to uninstall MB. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjc222 Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204344 Share Posted January 27, 2018 COME ON MALWAREBYTES.... FIX YOUR PROGRAM... THIS IS INSANE. I CAN'T DO ANYTHING Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giapet Posted January 27, 2018 Author ID:1204345 Share Posted January 27, 2018 I tried running another scan and my computer crashed, even the BSOD was screwed up. I restarted again and shut down MB before it could really get going. Now everything seems to be running fine... Pretty disappointing, I just bought this last week when I did the reformat on a friend's recommendation :/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phobos_Anomaly Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204346 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Same here. Wtf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeDaMrAz Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204350 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Same here... after ending this task it comes back and "eats" memory again.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gatekeeper Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204355 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Same here on two PCs, must deinstall for now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXoCiDe Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204356 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Same, as soon as Windows starts up the Service steadily eats up/gains 30 mb per second until it gets all the way up to 10 gb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phobos_Anomaly Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204358 Share Posted January 27, 2018 I right-clicked the icon besides the clock and selected "quit mwb". This helped, but now I'm left with Windows Defender. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeDaMrAz Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204362 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Web protection is turning off as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ouch Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204367 Share Posted January 27, 2018 was playing a game and it went slow as hell had to shut pc down when i booted it back up noticed same thing MB eating ram had to kill it at 10gb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floo92 Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204368 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Same for me. I uninstalled Mb and reinstalled it. The problem is still there Web protection turning off and +13go memory usage.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldone Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204376 Share Posted January 27, 2018 (edited) Quitting the program didn't do anything for me but slowed it down for a moment and I can't stop the service I guess I'll have to uninstall. It doesn't stop either I suppose it will just continue again till I run out of memory. Yes and web protection is off as well after the restart. Edited January 27, 2018 by coldone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleepyMaya Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204377 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Same here, it killed my computer and happened again after a reset. I closed it when it got into 21GB out of my 32GB memory. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giapet Posted January 27, 2018 Author ID:1204384 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Anyone having trouble uninstalling? The uninstaller is hung up for me... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frutson Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204389 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Same here, and MBAM can't stay dead if i kill it in task manager, had to uninstall. great job with the new update Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danull Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204398 Share Posted January 27, 2018 I have this too, it is bad - I have to terminate the Malwarebytes service and leave it down. It eventually eats up all available memory and kills my performance if left alone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor58 Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204404 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Same here, await the solution. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tgraf66 Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204432 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Just jumping on the bandwagon here. Same problem as described above: Realtime Protection gets turned off and won't turn back on, then it starts eating memory until everything stops and I have to do a hard re-boot. Uninstalled the program and it's fine now, but I don't like paying for something I can't use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
saajuk Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204446 Share Posted January 27, 2018 same, reinstalled and cant contact the license server to upgrade Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DapperAlex Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204449 Share Posted January 27, 2018 I wonder what the hell's going on? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADadAtHome Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204457 Share Posted January 27, 2018 (edited) This is insane. Mine got up to 12GB usage before my system his 100% and started closing applications. Thanks Malwarebytes for losing me some photoshop work. What the hell is happening? Has MB gotten infected? I noticed as other said too that it would auto turn off my web protection. Is that to save memory and CPU usage or is something fishy going on with the guys who are supposed to keep things from going fishy? Not only am I pissed because i'm losing work time from a shitty version of what used to be a great product, but it makes me severely question the A) reliability/competence of MB and B) the trustworthiness of MB ****Also note, I was finally able to stop the service without uninstall by going into services.msc and changing the service to manual and then changing the failure behavior to 'Do Nothing' instead of restart so it wouldn't restart every time I killed it. And THEN stopping the service.**** Edited January 27, 2018 by ADadAtHome Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleepyMaya Posted January 27, 2018 ID:1204466 Share Posted January 27, 2018 5 minutes ago, Frutson said: Same here, and MBAM can't stay dead if i kill it in task manager, had to uninstall. great job with the new update When I closed it from task manager it did come back on, but then I closed it from the program itself instead of task manager and it seem to stay closed for now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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