Is the conflict between Malwarebytes and Avast solved?

[Xauma95]

Is the conflict between Malwarebytes and Avast solved? and is the new version of mbam stable? cause i've been seeing some topics with problems and i don't know if i should update it

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[Firefox]

Hello and Welcome...

For the most part, Yes the conflict is resolved as long as you have the latest version of Avast and Malwarebytes installed.

Although some folks may have issues with the latest version of Malwarebytes, its not affecting all users.... the known issues are being worked on.

[Xauma95]

25 minutes ago, Firefox said:

Hello and Welcome...

For the most part, Yes the conflict is resolved as long as you have the latest version of Avast and Malwarebytes installed.

Although some folks may have issues with the latest version of Malwarebytes, its not affecting all users.... the known issues are being worked on.

So i can reactivate real site protection from avast and there won't be any conflict if i update mbam? Thanks in advance for your reply

[exile360]

Yes, as long as you have your Avast up to date.  You can force it to update via the methods outlined in this post.  The latest build of Malwarebytes is currently 3.6.1.

[Xauma95]

2 minutes ago, exile360 said:

Yes, as long as you have your Avast up to date.  You can force it to update via the methods outlined in this post.  The latest build of Malwarebytes is currently 3.6.1.

okey thank you, will try it

[exile360]

You're welcome

I don't expect that you'll have any issues, but if you do please let us know and we'll troubleshoot further.

[billbled]

This does not seem to be repaired. I have had MBAM 3.6.1.2711 installed. I was running Microsoft Security Essentials for anti-virus and had uninstalled Avast some weeks ago due to the BSODs I was getting. Since I had uninstalled Microsoft Security Essentials, I had no more BSODs. Not one.

Tonight, I uninstalled Microsoft Security Essentials and reinstalled the latest Avast Free AV because of this thread. Avast then tells me that because MBAM is installed and running, that it might get in the way, so Avast has turned off: Anti-Exploit Shield, Anti-Rootkit Shield, and also that Passive Mode is on. Avast tells me that for it to remedy these issues, I have to uninstall MBAM. But I'm a MBAM Premium user, and don't want to uninstall software that I've paid for. 

Any ideas? As it is right now, it seems that Avast and MBAM still can't play nice on the same computer. 

-Bill

[exile360]

That is odd.  I hadn't heard about Avast showing such notifications so it may be a recent change they've made.  You can try removing Malwarebytes temporarily then enabling everything in Avast, rebooting, then reinstalling Malwarebytes to see if the two will run side-by-side with all protection active.  If not, then I would recommend contacting Avast support to see what advice they offer as it is my understanding that all of these issues/conflicts were resolved already with the most recent updates to the two products (the BSODs, it turns out, weren't actually the result of any conflicts, just bugs in the web filter drivers used in the two products having issues with what I'm guessing was a recent MS Windows Update that resulted in some users of Malwarebytes or Avast having BSODs, even when both products were not installed together).