Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit standalone(MBAE) will from now on be offered as a perpetual beta product. The upgrades will work exactly as they are working today, ie auto-upgrades by default with the option to disable auto-upgrades and get a popup notification when there is a new version. So there will be an MBAE standalone 1.10, 1.11, etc. MBAE standalone (as well as ARW standalone) will continue in perpetual beta where we will release new versions to test before integrating them into MB3. But it begins to look as though upgrading to Malwarebytes 3.0 will cost me the price of a paid anti-virus.Īlthough Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit & Anti-Ransomware both have been incorporated into Malwarebytes 3.0., per one of the developers (pbust), current standalone beta versions of Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit & Anti-Ransomware will continue in perpetual beta form. I am in active dialogue with MB support, and I'm shortly going to go back and (metaphorically) beat them about the head and shoulders on this. If anyone has any brilliant ideas, I'd be grateful.
Worse, when I rebooted the laptop after uninstalling Bitdefender (and before adding AVG), MB3 still gave me "unable to connect the service", even though Bitdefender was gone, so it looks as if I can't even use Windows Defender. Well, AVG Free doesn't have an exclusion list either, and I still can't start Malwarebytes 3.0. I decided to try a different anti-virus, so I uninstalled Bitdefender Free and installed AVG free. Most of you probably know that BitDefender Free doesn't HAVE an exclusion list. I complained to MB support, who told me that I had to add a list of files to Bitdefender Free's exclusion list. After the usual reboot, the service has never started - I get a message "unable to connect the service", and Process Explorer shows nothing running beginning with "mbam".
During the install, I got an error message "unable to stop the service", but it finished installing anyway. The instructions say, just run the installer and it'll remove the older versions and it did. My desktop still runs MBAM 2.2 (paid) and the free version of MBAE. Paranoid, I decided to upgrade on my laptop first. MB support fixed this in mid-November but it came back the other day, and they encouraged me to upgrade to 3.0. I was having trouble with Anti-Exploit, twice in the last couple of months my paid version on my desktop has simply stopped working, and when I reinstall and try to activate, it says my license ID is wrong. I have - or had - paid versions of MBAM 2.2 on both my Win7 computers, desktop (primary tool) and laptop (occasional use).
I don't see anyone else reporting this problem so I'll put it up.
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