can't turn on ransomware protection

[shawnsbrain66]

My Ransomware protection won't turn on.
Nothing happens when I click the button (as opposed to turning it on, and it turning itself off... this is NOT that).

I did have a permissions issue on my computer, I assume it is related to that. Is there a folder or something I can check permissions in? 

 

 

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[shawnsbrain66]

mbst-grab-results.zip

[dcollins]

It looks like you have some exclusions setup for your network drives, which most likely aren't mounted when Malwarebytes starts. We have a fix for this coming soon, but for now, you'll need to remove these exclusions and then restart Malwarebytes.

[shawnsbrain66]

Thanks for your response. 

FYI: It was all working until a couple days ago when I accidentally messed up some permissions on my computer. I can't remove the network exclusions because MB was removing valid binary executables (EXE's) from my server.

What about setting the MB service to delayed start? Otherwise I'll just have to wait for the fix.

 

 

[dcollins]

You could try setting delayed start, but no guarantees it will solve the problem unfortunately. The fix should be out soon-ish, no ETA yet though