"Premium only" features stuck after license removal

[Lerain]

Greetings again,

I was messing around with the latest version of MB as shown here :

Happily this is already fixed. Double checked so everything will be detected now.

However, I've found something else :D

I've installed my MB client a week ago, so the system gave me the limited time Premium license. Very cool thing indeed.
I was testing the "Automatic quarantine" feature, just to see if it will detect all the malicious files that I'm going trough.

I don't need that feature in my everyday use, so for me I was about to disable it later.
Then i thought - what will happen if I try to kill my premium license - just by deleting it from the Account tab :D

I did just that - the software reverted to Free edition, but here is the twist.
The old premium features got stuck and now I cannot disable them :D



I think it's some kind of a bug tho.

I was testing some malicious files earlier and nothing removed them, so maybe the "Automatic quarantine" feature is not really working, just a UI bug.

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[Lerain]

Do you have a dedicated "Malwarebytes Uninstaller" software like the others AVs, that removes all configurations and so on ?

Right now if I uninstall the client, restart the computer and install the latest version again - i'm getting the same result with those Premium feature which means some settings are persisted between different installations.

[Lerain]

1 minute ago, Lerain said:

Do you have a dedicated "Malwarebytes Uninstaller" software like the others AVs, that removes all configurations and so on ?

Right now if I uninstall the client, restart the computer and install the latest version again - i'm getting the same result with those Premium feature which means some settings are persisted between different installations.

Found it here :D
 

When I will be able to edit my posts ? Is it a paid feature ?

The lack of such ability is ultra annoying and I'm doing double posting like crazy because of that.

[David H. Lipman]

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Edited January 30, 2022 by David H. Lipman
Edited for content, clarity, spelling and/or grammar

[Porthos]

1 hour ago, Lerain said:

I was testing some malicious files earlier and nothing removed them, so maybe the "Automatic quarantine" feature is not really working,

What you are seeing is the way the free version is supposed to work. The greyed out controls are Premium only features and are disabled in the free version.

 

1 hour ago, Lerain said:

Found it here :D
 

 

This is OLD uninstall info. The  Current uninstall info is here.

Please do the following Uninstall and reinstall using the Malwarebytes Support Tool

Please close all browsers and programs before running the tool. Right click and quit MB from the system tray also.

 

Edited January 30, 2022 by Porthos