Mac Notification Issue - clicking on popup starts up VmWare Fusion

[twh]

Once in a while I get a Malwarebytes notification on my Mac. If I click on the popup notification window it starts up VMware Fusion on my machine. I've tried to look for the association to fix it, but without success.

[treed]

I've seen this happen before when VMWare Fusion has tried to be helpful by sending all "malwarebytes://" URLs to the copy of Malwarebytes installed within a Windows VM, instead of sending it to the Mac version natively installed on the system.

Unfortunately, macOS does not provide any mechanism for resolving such conflicts, except when it comes to certain common URL schema used by many apps, such as "https://" or "mailto:".

I cannot recall what the solution was the last time this came up. There are some solutions mentioned on various sites online for editing a launch services .plist file, but those solutions are old and do not appear to be correct for modern macOS.

My best suggestion would be to try resetting launch services:

https://eclecticlight.co/2017/08/11/launch-services-database-problems-correcting-and-rebuilding/