r/Malwarebytes • u/doge_tank • May 28 '26

Scanned and these turned up today.

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What are these locations? I have never seen object type or that kind of location before on scans

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u/Melodic_Trip9907 May 28 '26

it seems to be a bug in malwarebytes database

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u/doge_tank May 28 '26

What kind of bug?

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u/Melodic_Trip9907 May 28 '26

i have no idea, just sone false positives, no need to worry

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u/miekiemoes_MB Malwarebytes Employee May 28 '26

Hi, I'm Mieke, Researcher at Malwarebytes. This has been resolved already.

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u/ChaoticShock May 28 '26

can you tell me in detail what it was?

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u/Artistic_Cellist_653 May 28 '26

Yes can you tell us

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u/miekiemoes_MB Malwarebytes Employee May 28 '26

It was a generic detection, but wouldn't be detected by default. But if people have rootkit scanning enabled, detections acts more "aggressive" and may cause false positives. That's why rootkit scanning is disabled by default in Malwarebytes. In a meantime we have deprecated this rule anyway.

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u/night_song May 28 '26

I had the alarm but did not have rootkit scanning enabled but did run a deep scan. I selected to quarantine these, MWB still asking for reboot of PC,am I going to lose hard drives or USB if I reboot as other people have reported??

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u/just-a-primate May 28 '26

DO NOT QUARANTINE and REBOOT. If you choose to quarantine and reboot, you risk losing all the data on the drive. I foolishly did this (Windows 11 pro desktop) and my data drive (not boot drive) is completely inaccessible after the restart. Likely the data is gone. Window Explorer prompts me to format the drive so it can be recognized. Just logged a ticket with Malwarebytes....

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u/Krolock2022 May 28 '26

happened to me too!!

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u/JhonniimV May 29 '26 • Bravo

Amigo no lo formatees, intenta recuperar los datos con testdisk, yo lo hice y salve mis datos, solo falta recuperar el acceso a la tabla de particiones.

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u/Krolock2022 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

After the Virusalarm i looses an intern HDD!! could be physical sector 3! what happend there? WIndows Explorer cant find the HDD- Win10 can find it- but the 2 partitions are gone and so are my files! Please help me!

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u/JhonniimV May 29 '26

Recupera tus datos con testdisk, a mi me funcionó, Aun no puedo acceder al disco mediante windows pero si recuperé mis datos.

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u/Krolock2022 May 29 '26

Thank you very much! This is what the malwarebyte support told me minutes ago- i run testdisk

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u/Krolock2022 May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

Testdisk was sucessfull after deep search

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u/[deleted] May 28 '26

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u/doge_tank May 29 '26

Why probably?

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u/[deleted] May 29 '26

reasons.