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My firewall has all permissions for Malwarebytes on and I turn off Cryptoprevent properly and restart computer and even got rid of Avast from to add/remove control panel window and turned on Windows Defender instead.  I have Windows 7 Professional and I used the Malewarebytes repair tools and it  reinstalled a fresh copy of my Malwarebytes Premium.  Daily scheduled scans always still work but trying a manual scan always crashes immediately.  I have done this complete routine three times with the same results.  Anyone else experience this or know the fix?  Thanks! 

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54 minutes ago, mauiart said:

I am posting my first post above here on a friends computer just now but will provide logs when I get back home later today as request in the automated reply.

While I wait for the logs, Are you doing a standard scan and have you enabled any non standard options like rootkit scanning?

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16 minutes ago, mauiart said:

Here is the log file. 

I suggest uninstalling the following.

CCleaner ( Not recommended by experts any longer).
CCleaner Browser

CCleaner Update Helper

Dell Digital Delivery. Not needed and seems to be crashing in your error reports.

When doing Manual scans do the default scan only with out the additional items I mentioned checked. Do not bother to do full scans or the other drives.

Malwarebytes is not designed to function like normal AV scanners and uses a new kind of scan engine that relies mostly on heuristics detection techniques rather than traditional threat signatures.  Malwarebytes is also designed to look in all the locations where malware is known to install itself/hide, so a full or custom scan shouldn't be necessary, especially since the default Threat Scan/Quick Scan checks all loading points/startup locations, the registry, all running processes and threads in memory, along with all system folders, program folders and data folders as well as any installed browsers, caches and temp locations.  This also means that if a threat were active from a non-standard location, because Malwarebytes checks all threads and processes in memory, it should still be detected.  The only threat it *might* miss would be a dormant/inactive threat that is not actively running/installed on a secondary drive, however if the threat were executed then Malwarebytes should detect it.  Additionally, whenever a new location is discovered to be used by malware the Malwarebytes Research team adds that location dynamically to the outgoing database updates so the locations that are checked by the default Threat/Quick Scan in Malwarebytes can be changed on the fly by Research without requiring any engine or program version updates/upgrades.

After you have taken care of the above, run a standard scan and see if it works.

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OK, I deleted those items,turned off those two unnecessary scan options and restarted computer and am using default settings with  'automatically quarentine maleware items found'on and now for some reason although it crashes upon manual scanning immediately, in about 5 minutes later the popup notificacation shows up with the same message as my screenshot here and that was the same in the past when it would only popup once a day for my scheduled scan, never before for a manual scan that crashed with that same resulting message day after day.  Upon clicking see results the program would open and immesiately crash, so I could never see the resulting items qurintined, which was probably somehow the same day in and day out for some reason..  I have been using this premium version since 2013 and would very rarely even find any results and those would be those PUP's.  This crashing though has been happening now for at least 6 months and I have been using this premium version on this Dell Windows 7 professional desktop since 2016 supurbly until about 6 monthes ago.  Thanks so far for your detailed responses so far Porthos.  Aloha, mauiart here on Maui

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I see you're using one of the Group Policy methods used a few years ago in an attempt to prevent ransomware attacks. That's a difficult one in that if it's all correct in theory it should only be blocking items running from locations undesirable. If it's wrong anywhere though it can cause issues with legit programs running.

In this case our program is running and I assume you been using this policy for a long time now so for now we'll ignore it.

That said the logs do not reflect what you say about uninstalling items.

Please go to Control Panel, Add/Remove and uninstall all of the following. Then restart the computer and run Farbar to gather new fresh logs.

 


CCleaner
CCleaner Browser
CCleaner Update Helper
CryptoPrevent
Dell Digital Delivery
Spybot - Search and Destroy

 

 

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