Rootkit Disabled for as long as i can remember

[gilamonster]

As long as I have been working with Malwarebytes there has always been conflicted reporting on whether rootkit detection was enabled or disabled.  I ALWAYS select it in the control panel but recently I had an A.I. detection that flagged some Webroot DLLs and the report came back:

-Scan Options-
Memory: Enabled
Startup: Enabled
Filesystem: Enabled
Archives: Enabled
Rootkits: Disabled
Heuristics: Enabled
PUP: Detect
PUM: Detect

When I see Rootkits disabled for YEARS in reports despite them being turned ON with user control it gives ZERO confidence in this system.  What is going on?

How do I know that the webroot dlls were even a threat?  Will that affect the function of Webroot?

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[Porthos]

Rootkit scanning is disabled by default.

It is recommend rootkit be turned on only where there is an issue for removing something with the normal scan. Rootkit scanning is slightly more dangerous as it has to disable some whitelisting to remediate some rootkits.

Maybe once a week if really want to use rootkit. But honestly we rarely see rootkit files anymore and the newer engine can remove most of them anyways even without rootkit on.

4 minutes ago, gilamonster said:

When I see Rootkits disabled for YEARS in reports despite them being turned ON

There are 2 different places to turn on rootkit scanning, one in the main section and one in the scheduler.

9 minutes ago, gilamonster said:

recently I had an A.I. detection that flagged some Webroot DLLs and the report came back:

There were some false positive AI detection's the last couple of days.

I would  also recommend creating exclusions between Malwarebytes and Your AV to help prevent any possible conflicts or performance issues.  Please add the items listed in this support article to Your AV 's allow list(s)/trust list(s)/exclusion list(s) particularly for any of its real-time protection components and likewise add Your AV 's program folder(s) (likely located under C:\Program Files and/or C:\Program Files (x86)) to Malwarebytes' Allow List using the method described under the Allow a file or folder section of this support article and do the same for its primary data folder which is likely located under C:\ProgramData (you may need to show hidden files and folders to see it).

 

[Porthos]

I also tested a scheduled scan with rootkits enabled.

Quote

-System Information-
OS: Windows 10 (Build 19042.985)
CPU: x64
File System: NTFS
User: System

-Scan Summary-
Scan Type: Threat Scan
Scan Initiated By: Scheduler
Result: Completed
Objects Scanned: 346084
Threats Detected: 0
Threats Quarantined: 0
Time Elapsed: 3 min, 15 sec

-Scan Options-
Memory: Enabled
Startup: Enabled
Filesystem: Enabled
Archives: Disabled
Rootkits: Enabled
Heuristics: Enabled
PUP: Detect