TheBackShed.com

Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Malwarebytes terminates and quarantines MMbasic.exe

Author

Message

Paul_L
Guru

Joined: 03/03/2016
Location: United States
Posts: 769

Posted: 05:55am 13 Jun 2022

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

I have Malwarebytes setup as my primary antivirus with its Web Protection, Malware & PUP Protection, Ransomware Protection and Exploit Protection all turned on.

Malwarebytes uses heuristic observation of the behavior of programs to detect malicious stuff.

It terminates and quarantines the MMBasic.exe extracted from 2022-04-22_V5.07.03b10 MMBasic Windows beta.zip. It thinks that MMBasic is being naughty.

If I go into the Real-Time Protection settings of Malwarebytes and turn Malware & PUP Protection off it then does not halt or quarantine MMBasic.exe, but Windows Security then pops up a warning that both Malwarebytes and Windows Defender malware protection is turned off. Windows Security itself does not detect that Malware & PUP protection is insufficient.

Malwarebytes has no way to create an exception for MMBasic.exe.

What the heck is MMBasic doing that Malwarebytes does not like. Must I leave Malware & PUP Protection off in order to run MMBasic.

Paul in NY

Mixtel90

Guru

Joined: 05/10/2019
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 8303

Posted: 06:25am 13 Jun 2022

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

This doesn't fix it then?

Mick

Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini
Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs

Tinine
Guru

Joined: 30/03/2016
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1646

Posted: 06:42am 13 Jun 2022

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

I simply don't bother with that stuff:

Quote
Reboot Restore Rx

Reboot Restore Rx prevents any changes made on your drive(s) by restoring a saved baseline every time the PC boots up.

It is designed for small public access computing environments such as classrooms, libraries, kiosks, and internet cafes.

Even when users download files, viruses, malware, or even try to delete registry keys, Reboot Restore Rx will restore the PC back to your desired state.

From here...

Your data goes elsewhere (DropBox in my case).

Craig

lizby
Guru

Joined: 17/05/2016
Location: United States
Posts: 3481

Posted: 11:01am 13 Jun 2022

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

After having no issues with MMB4W, Malwarebytes decided to start quarantining it. I did what Mick's article suggests--added it to the "Allow" set.

PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed

Print this page

To reply to this topic, you need to log in.