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    Malwarebytes (MBAM) Udate Error on Critical System files.

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by Dragnoak, Apr 16, 2013.

  1. Dragnoak

    Dragnoak Notebook Evangelist

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    Dragnoak, Apr 16, 2013
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    Not the first time an update got false pos. There was another a few months ago that did give a few false positives as well. This one seems more severe though.
     
    tijo, Apr 16, 2013
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    Yea this screw-up made me spent a couple hours of my time yesterday fixing my computer. The program identified 8500 viruses rofl.
     
    townfries, Apr 17, 2013
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    Hi Dragnoak,

    Thanks for the Thread.

    I turned my laptop on and viola it says that need to Fix something, so, I let it do it's thing ... and boy the screwey thing restored itself back to 2 days ago ... so, everything that I had installed last 2 days went capot ...

    So, I thought it might have been the 2 software that I installed ...

    But once I tried to Manually update my MBAM ... I saw it said Corrupt database ... and then installed the correct database.

    I would expect this kind of Screw Up from a lesser Trusted AV, but Not MBAM.

    Thanks!

    G! :)
     
    gonwk, Sep 14, 2013
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