{"id":2889,"date":"2017-05-19T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:11:04","slug":"malwarebytes-real-time-protection-keeps-turning-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/05\/19\/malwarebytes-real-time-protection-keeps-turning-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Malwarebytes: Real time protection keeps turning off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Schutz.jpg\" width=\"40\" height=\"47\" \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/19\/malwarebytes-realtime-protection-hat-ein-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]It seems that users of Malwarebytes security software was hidden by a strange issue. The real time protection keeps tuning off. An update shipped today seems to fixed the issue (till the next case).<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I've been pinged by a German user at Google+ \u2013 he noticed, the Malwarebytes is causing suddenly serious trouble &#8211; the real time protection keeps tuning off.<\/p>\n<h2>Update ends with null byte database<\/h2>\n<p>It seems, see <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.malwarebytes.com\/topic\/201185-protection-keeps-turning-off-v312\/?do=findComment&amp;comment=1127241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this forum post<\/a>, that an Malwarebytes update ended with MBDB data bases with a size of 0 bytes.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: Malwarebytes forum)<\/p>\n<h2>Users affected worldwide<\/h2>\n<p>According to MalwareByte's support forum (<a href=\"https:\/\/forums.malwarebytes.com\/topic\/201185-protection-keeps-turning-off-v312\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see this forum thread<\/a>), many users has been affected. Malwarebytes software reports that the Real-Time Protection Layers are deactivated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Malwarebyte-v312.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Malwarebytes V 3.1.2 Problem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Malwarebyte-v312_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Malwarebytes V 3.1.2 Problem\" width=\"497\" height=\"310\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Source: Malwarebytes forum)<\/p>\n<p>Not only version 3.1.2 was affected, other users are reporting the same with 3.0.6 (there is a support article Malwarebytes 3.0 Real-time protection layer turning off? addressing this old issue).<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.malwarebytes.com\/topic\/201185-protection-keeps-turning-off-v312\/?page=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malwarebytes<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Users updating to version 3.1.2 can't activate Real time protection. MalwareBytes has released an update (<a href=\"https:\/\/forums.malwarebytes.com\/topic\/201234-fixed-database-update-causing-protection-and-scans-to-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see MalwareBytes forum<\/a>) which seems to fixed the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Similar articles:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/01\/27\/malwarebytes-anti-malware-3-mbam-eats-all-memory\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Malwarebytes Anti Malware 3 (MBAM) high memory usage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]It seems that users of Malwarebytes security software was hidden by a strange issue. The real time protection keeps tuning off. An update shipped today seems to fixed the issue (till the next case).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,2],"tags":[842,841],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-windows","tag-issuewindows","tag-malwarebytes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}