How to make scan silent?

[Pipps]

Hello, 

 

I receive bothersome daily prompts saying my computer has been scanned and is clean but I cannot find any way of making my daily scan "silent".

How can a scheduled scan be made silent please?

 

Thanks

 

Pipps

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[bdubrow]

Hi Pipps--

Thanks for your feedback.  

Currently there is no way to suppress the Scan Complete message when no threats are detected.  But we've actually received the request to allow the scan results to be silent from others.

We hope to add that notification to the list of notifications that obey the "Show Malwarebytes notifications in the Windows System Tray" setting in Application Settings. Alternatively, there have been discussions to build out even more granular control over all program notifications.

So hopefully you'll see this enhancement added in an future Malwarebytes update soon.

[Pipps]

Has this problem been solved yet?

[LiquidTension]

Hi @Pipps,

In the latest version of Malwarebytes, you can suppress the "Scan complete" notification by disabling the, "Show all notifications in Windows notification area" setting found in Settings -> Notifications.

[Pipps]

After months of Malwarebytes again running silently, it has this weekend begun to interfere with my work again.

I am now receiving daily prompts to say that it has completed a scan and that I should view the results.

The results are always just tracking cookies from Chrome and I have no interest in viewing these.

In "Settings > Notifications", the first option to "Show all notifications..." is already disabled.

How do I prevent these new and invasive prompts from interrupting my work?

[Porthos]

@Pipps Welcome back.

35 minutes ago, Pipps said:

The results are always just tracking cookies from Chrome and I have no interest in viewing these.

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[Pipps]

Rather than investigate information from my computer, would you please simply tell me how to disable these notifications?

[AdvancedSetup]

Don't know why it is alerting. If you've made no changes and you're using scheduled scans then normally it should be silent.

 

[AdvancedSetup]

If you don't wan to post logs then maybe try deleting your current schedule and creating a new one and see if that fixes it.

Or, try uninstalling and reinstalling the program

Uninstall and reinstall Malwarebytes using the Malwarebytes Support Tool

Thank you

 

[AdvancedSetup]

As @LiquidTension said above. To remain silent you will need to disable all alerting. I have requested that an option to set a scheduled task include it being silent for a future build.

 

[Pipps]

As I have said above several times, "Show all notifications..." is already disabled.

I do not have any schedule setup. I have never attempted to setup any schedule.

These unnecessary interruptions are making me consider ending my subscription.

How do I stop your software from repeatedly notifying of Chrome PUPs scanned?

[Porthos]

4 minutes ago, Pipps said:

How do I stop your software from repeatedly notifying of Chrome PUPs scanned?

Now that makes more sense. Please follow the following guide to deal with that issue.

 

[Porthos]

@Pipps

Just checking on your progress.

[Pipps]

@Porthos - The problem seems to be resolved now. Thank you

[Porthos]

1 hour ago, Pipps said:

@Porthos - The problem seems to be resolved now. Thank you

Good to know,

Best wishes and stay safe.

Edited July 24, 2020 by Porthos

[LiquidTension]

Thank you for the feedback on this.

We have a request filed to evaluate whether it would be feasible to separate the "Scan complete" notification from other notification types. This would allow you to suppress "Scan complete" whilst retaining all other notifications. We'll post to this topic if this is something we address in a future product update.

[exile360]

I would think it should be possible to silence all green status notifications, that way you could provide an option to only display alerts which indicate a real problem and potential action/decision on the part of the user.  That would disable the web blocks too, which I know some users would appreciate (though diagnostically, such blocks may be useful for determining the presence of PUPs in a browser or hidden Trojans or other malware on the system).

[LiquidTension]

That feature already exists. Disabling the "Show all notifications in Windows notification area" setting will disable all green colour-coded notifications. Disabling orange and red notifications is not possible.

[exile360]

That's right, I forgot about that.  I kept thinking it disabled all notifications, not just the green ones.