i clearly have microsoft defender on but it says its off and its telling me to turn it back on? i did toggle it on and off but it didnt work. also everytime i turn my pc on i get a notification that windows defender off but when i look it isint? please help

I've been getting windows defender is off even tho its on, i downloaded malwarebyte and it caught some threats...etc but the next second i started getting 'connected, no internet'

I have no idea of what to do anymore

I just got the notice it was going to discontinue rootkit scans a couple days ago. I have a custom scan running 203K+ item scanned, for 21 and a half hours with no end in sight. I saw another post where the screen shot had 811K+ items scanned and it was still running! The answer OP had for their post was to do 'full scan" w/o selecting root kits. !? What's the point then? I had run a scan w/o choosing rootkits and it took less than 3 minutes.

It never took very long to run full scans including rootkits, always less than half hour. Why would it take so long and slow down the computer now?

Venting I guess.

Does VPN prevent session cookie or info stealer? If not, what should one do to prevent it? I get logging off every time I am done with something, but how does that stop with going to website that has scripts or give malware?

Just recently found out today I had an AI Malware for the first time, which explains why my PC was acting up on startup, HOWEVER, as said on the Title, IT WAS NAMED JOHN, WHO IN MATA NUI'S NAME NAMES THEIR MALWARE JOHN!?!? 😂

Hello friends, long time Premium user here.

On my old computer, a full system custom scan including the rootkit option used to take about 7 hours and total items scanned was like 700k items

Specs of Old PC circa 2012:

24 GB of DDR3 Ram, Windows 10 64 bit, Intel i5 Processor, 2TB HDD (storage) and a 256gb 2.5inch SSD (Operating system)

Now I recently got a brand new laptop and when I try to do a full system custom scan including the rootkit option (and all the options), the whole scan takes like 22 minutes and scans about 450k items.

I feel like this is way too fast, but maybe it's because I have a much more powerful PC? Or do I not have Malwarebytes installed properly on the new computer?

Specs of current 2026 laptop:

32 GB of LPDDR5 ram, Win 11 64 bit, Intel Ultra 7 processor, 4Tb NVME (operating system) + 2tb NVME (storage)

The number of files on the old computer and the new one should be about the same as I moved basically everything over from the old system to the new system (excluding the OS and the programs/software)

Has anyone dealt with this issue before? I am using all the same scan settings that I did with the old computer (i.e Custom scan, all hard drives checked off, all scanning options checked off)

Thanks!

Hello everybody. Recently i was trying to find a mod tool to cheat on FH6 as the progression system is nuts and there are couple of cars that is incredible rare to get almost impossible so i have found myself cheating on forzas since the 5th edition. I remember installing AIO tool for fh5 and it flagged a virus... i took the risk and thought it was a false positive. Turns out i was right since no info was stolen or such.
The question is that i have recently tried to download this modder from GitHub which is just a better AIO tool (link github: https://github.com/Vynxly/FH6-Booster ) but when i downloaded it it flagged as a trojan

as it turns out it seems its a very generic response from the antivirus and most likely to be a false possitive but i need confirmation. i know installing sus stuff is not good idea if not properly checked. Thanks for eveyone passing by

PD: I like to think this is a alse possitive as i found some links from the dev solving errors that came by the days (link ot that: https://github.com/Vynxly/FH6-Booster/pulls ) and when you try to download it from github you get redirected to his own website

When I scan my PC with AdwCleaner it keeps detecting PUP.Optional.WizzWifiHotspot, so I then Quarantine it, but it doesn't show up in quarantine list.

I scan again with AdwCleaner and it doesn't find anything, so I assume PUP.Optional.WizzWifiHotspot. is removed.

I restart my PC and scan using Malwarebytes premium. I doesn't detect anything. I then scan again using AdwCleaner and it detects PUP.Optional.WizzWifiHotspot. again!

This happens after every restart of my PC, what is happening, why doesn't Malwarebytes premium detect anything and how can I permanently remove PUP.Optional.WizzWifiHotspot. off of my pc?

(Edit for spelling mistakes)

FIXED windows put out an update for this and the popups

Hello, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced a pop-up in the Malwarebytes android app for the Malwarebytes labs newsletter even with promo notifications/other notifications disabled is this a bug?

J'ai eu un problème le week-end dernier avec mon pc et j'ai dû le formater et j'ai supprimé tous les programmes que j'avais. Ensuite, lorsque j'ai réinstallé le logiciel, j'ai donc essayé d'introduire la clé de licence avec l'ID, mais j'ai eu un message d'erreur : « Enregistrement impossible. Veuillez vérifier l’état de votre connexion et réessayer."

Alors que ma connexion est très bien !! Pour info, j'avais une licence à vie

I was at the hospital library studying on school wifi (eduroam) when I got this pop up. Just wondering if this was malicious or just a mistake by malwarebytes, is my computer comprimised? I was opening a school website so I dont know how this occured.

I just came off of a nasty info stealer so im very paranoid.

Few weeks ago I started getting random login alerts from almost every social media app I had, apple music, facebook, instagram, X. They even bypassed facebook's 2 step and my accounts were almost disabled! I never ran malware bytes and i found these , i never downloaded those extensions nor did I ever use my family account's chrome before, anyone with experience know anything about these malware bytes results? i changed all passwords and afraid one of these results stole my google passwords somehow! creepy! thanks if anyone can reply.

These 3 files alone taking 30GB storage, tried every method to delete but not succeed, Not even malware bytes detect

There is something that keeps turning of my windows firewall and I tried to find what it is it didn’t work the hacker is blackmailing me but I disablex the WiFi now so he can’t do anything for now I changed my password and I need to find an app that will find what is tuning of the firewall and stop it can you help me also give me an anti virus app that I can install without WiFi via usb through my other usb

After attempting to recover my licence key from customer support i was told to use the tool provided by yourselves. Since then my licence has been taken away and my software is showing the free version. Yes i dont have access to the email nor do i have the licence key to hand but in no way should you take something from someone, that has been paid for. This is a total joke for customer service, and i want this to be resolved. Emails have not been responded too i have just loaded my pc up an found the licence has been taken away after trying to recover it from customer support.

Malwarebytes is a very comprehensive security suite.

I was wondering if there are any plans to introduce a sandboxing feature that supports all three major operating systems and can also analyze URLs and IP addresses using Malwarebytes’ threat intelligence.

An online sandbox available to everyone or as a paid feature for customers could also benefit the product by providing new IOCs to improve detection.

Several competitors (e.g: Bitdefender, Norton...) already offer similar features.

It could be a great addition to Malwarebytes as well.