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After installing the latest version of MB3, I've been getting an issue with folders on my PC randomly being "in use", preventing me from moving or renaming them. Initially thought it might be some sort of issue with explorer.exe, but twice now, the issue has gone away after quitting Malwarebytes. Is there a way to prevent this behaviour? It's incredibly obnoxious.

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I had the same problem, which caused me troubles for days and finally screwed up a major backup process.  Thinking it was a problem with my apps, I spent hours of trial and error before discovering that MBAM was the problem.

Before you guys release a new version, at least check the basics eg does it keep folders and USB drives locked.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Was having same problem

Installed mb3-setup-consumer-3.4.5.2467-1.0.342-1.0.4548.exe on 31.3.2018 everything working OK

Have started to get the same problems again make a folder copy a .jpg into it and cannot rename folder if I Quit MBAM I can then rename folder.

Restart MBAM renaming folder works OK. Hit and miss whether it allows renaming or not.

Version Information

Malwarebytes 3.4.5.2467

Component package version 1.0.342

Update package version 1.0.4816

Latest download is mb3-setup-consumer-3.4.5.2467-1.0.342-1.0.4808.exe

onedot3

 

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