After you restore the missing Windows Update, BITS, or the Update Orchestrator Service services using registry files, you find that the services vanish again after a restart. They don’t appear in the Services MMC.Read more
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Microsoft Defender Antivirus is Snoozed; You’re using other antivirus providers
When you open Windows Security, the security dashboard may show the message “You’re using other antivirus providers.” even though you don’t have any third-party antivirus program installed. In some cases, the real-time protection option would be available. But it reverts to “off” status immediately after you try to turn it on. If you open the … Read more
Disable “Filtering Platform Connection” (Event ID 5156, 5158) Security Logging
When you open the Security Event log, the log may contain many “Filtering Platform Connection” events. The event ID of these entries maybe 5156 or 5158. The security log may record close to 100 events per minute, containing the event ID 5156 or 5158. This causes the security event log to become full very quickly. … Read more
Fix for Malwarebytes Error “Unable to connect the Service”
When you try to open Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM) software on your Windows computer, you may receive the following error:
Unable to start Unable to connect the Service
If you attempt to start the “Malwarebytes Service” (MBAMService) service via Services MMC (services.msc), the following error may occur:
Windows could not start the Malwarebytes Service service on Local Computer. Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.
Additionally, when you check the dependencies of any service in the Services MMC, the following error is shown:
Service Dependencies Win32: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
The above errors occur if the “Windows Management Instrumentation” (WinMgmt) service is not running.Read more
Malwarebytes High Memory (RAM) Usage Problem
Malwarebytes Premium (3.3.1) users are reporting a problem where the program uses an enormous amount of memory and usage goes on increasing even up to 20GB or more. I believe the Malwarebytes support/development team is looking into the memory leak issue and here is a huge thread on the Malwarebytes forums (RAM usage – what is going on?) where many users have posted their concerns.Read more
Fix: Malwarebytes Disables Defender or 3rd Party Anti-Virus
After installing Malwarebytes Premium 14-day trial or licensed product, your anti-virus software (e.g., Microsoft Defender Antivirus) may get disabled automatically. In this scenario, when you attempt to start the Microsoft Defender Antivirus Service (WinDefend) via the Services console, it shows the following error, and the service wouldn’t start.Read more
Black Screen and Command Prompt Open at Logon – No Explorer Shell
Due to a crypto-malware infection in the computer, after logging in to your user account, a black screen appears with a Command Prompt window open. Your desktop, taskbar, and the wallpaper (explorer shell) don’t get loaded unless you type explorer.exe in the Command Prompt window manually. This problem may continue even in the aftermath of malware or crypto-miner removal.
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Malwarebytes 3.3 Released: What’s New
Malwarebytes version 3.3 has been released today. This version seems to fix many issues, especially problems where real-time protection turns off automatically, as well as the issue of Malwarebytes Tray Application appearing on the Alt + tab screen. And the notification design looks great in this version.Read more
How to Configure Controlled Folder Access to Stop “Unauthorized changes blocked” Notifications
Windows 10 and 11 include a beneficial security feature named Controlled folder access, which is part of the Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard. You may have noticed the Unauthorized changes blocked notifications. Microsoft Defender’s Controlled folder access feature is the one behind those notifications. Controlled folder access helps you protect valuable data from malicious programs, such as ransomware.
This article explains how to configure CFA and prevent Unauthorized changes blocked notifications when running a program.
Malwarebytes Real-Time Protection layers turned off at every startup
Malwarebytes Premium is an all-in-one security suite which guards the system against ransomware, exploits, malware and also provides web protection. In some systems, Malwarebytes Web protection module may get disabled, and the message Real-Time Protection layers turned off is shown in the notification area at every startup.Read more