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[smargh]

Hello.

I've bought Malwarebytes for use with a PC which also has SteadyState disk protection, whereby all changes are rolled back after a reboot except for Windows Updates, some AV updates and custom update scripts.

The criteria for app updates within SteadyState basically says that the update process should be entirely complete when the one update command finishes running. I have looked into putting MBAM on another unprotected partition, but the active protection .sys resides in %windir%\system32 which wouldn't be rolled back after a reboot.

Would mbam.exe /runupdate be sufficient? Would that update process also update the .sys when necessary and close when it has finished everything?

I have googled & searched this forum, but it doesn't look like anyone has mentioned MBAM with Steadystate.

Thanks.

[exile360]

Greetings and welcome .

If a new version of MBAM is available, then it would download and start the installer for it using the /runupdate switch. As far as I know the user would still need to follow the instructions of the installer and click through it to get it done so it isn't completely automated. It would however update the drivers (the 2 .sys files) when the new version is installed as well as the application and files in the Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware folder in Program Files.

[smargh]

It doesn't need to be 100% automated - the UI should still be able to appear when the command is run. When MBAM is run with the /runupdate switch, will that specific .exe process ending definitely signify that all the aspects of the update process have finished?

[exile360]

Unfortunately no as it's not possible, since it's mbam.exe that executes the update, and has to close while the installer installs the new version, which replaces mbam.exe along with MBAM's other files.