Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit BETA v1.10.3.1001

[Tuscan Driver]

I have been running this piece of kit for many years along with Malwarebytes Premium however, recently as far back as 4 months ago, the program stopped updating.

I removed the program and again re-installed but still no updates as shown here.

Any advice would be welcome.  Many thanks in advance. 

[Porthos]

10 minutes ago, Tuscan Driver said:

Any advice would be welcome.  Many thanks in advance. 

Can you please collect and upload as an attachment the diagnostic data using our MBST?

• Download and run the Malwarebytes Support Tool
• Accept the EULA and click Advanced tab on the left (not Start Repair)
• Click the Gather Logs button, and once it completes, attach the zip file it creates on your desktop to your next reply

[Tuscan Driver]

Many thanks. Here is the results attached

mbst-grab-results.zip

[exile360]

Greetings,

Currently there is no difference between the standalone Anti-Rootkit Beta and enabling rootkit scanning in Malwarebytes for Windows so you can save a lot of time and energy by simply enabling rootkit scanning under Settings>Security for your manual scans as well as in the scheduler (for Premium) via the advanced options menu in the editor for scheduled scans.

[Porthos]

22 minutes ago, Tuscan Driver said:

Here is the results attached

I suggest you run some diagnostics on your drive. I would suggest getting the toll from the maker of your drive.

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System errors:
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Error: (08/31/2020 11:46:52 PM) (Source: disk) (EventID: 7) (User: )
Description: The device, \Device\Harddisk6\DR13, has a bad block.

 

[Tuscan Driver]

21 minutes ago, Porthos said:

I suggest you run some diagnostics on your drive. I would suggest getting the toll from the maker of your drive.

 

I run intensive checks on my hard drive regularly. I do a chkdsk /f /r and also do the sfc /scannow. All have reported no issues.

[Tuscan Driver]

1 hour ago, exile360 said:

Greetings,

Currently there is no difference between the standalone and enabling rootkit scanning in Malwarebytes for Windows so you can save a lot of time and energy by simply enabling rootkit scanning under Settings>Security for your manual scans as well as in the scheduler (for Premium) via the advanced options menu in the editor for scheduled scans.

Anti-Rootkit is enabled on my Malwarebytes Premium. I'll uninstall the Anti-Rootkit Beta in that case.

[Porthos]

4 minutes ago, Tuscan Driver said:

I do a chkdsk /f /r and also do the sfc /scannow. All have reported no issues.

Have you run any actual diagnostics on the drive? the above mentioned commands are not diagnostics.

Try the portable version of Crystal disk info. Extract and run. https://osdn.net/frs/redir.php?m=xtom_us&f=crystaldiskinfo%2F73507%2FCrystalDiskInfo8_8_2.zip

Post a screenshot of the results.

Edited September 1, 2020 by Porthos

[Tuscan Driver]

Results of the Crystal disk diagnostics scan...

[Porthos]

19 minutes ago, Tuscan Driver said:

Results of the Crystal disk diagnostics scan...

Be sure to keep backups. You drive has lots of "mileage" on it.

I do suggest you invest in a SSD. your computer will preform much better.

Other than that, Best wishes.

[Tuscan Driver]

Yep I agree with the SSD. I managed to persuade a friend to invest in an SSD drive and decided to order one. I may well get a DELL 'OptiPlex 7070 Micro' Desktop.

Best wishes also.

[Porthos]

1 hour ago, Tuscan Driver said:

I managed to persuade a friend to invest in an SSD drive and decided to order one.

I will not use or sell a computer without one.

 

1 hour ago, Tuscan Driver said:

I may well get a DELL 'OptiPlex 7070 Micro' Desktop.

Personally not a fan of micro desktops but they have their uses.