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DarkSnakeKobra, on 08 December 2012 - 01:19 PM, said:

Thanks, I found that information in Malwarebytes EULA

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That's a shame! But quite reasonable. It does make you think though, I wonder howmany tech shops do in fact use Malwarebytes free on customer's computers and then remove it once complete?
BTW, I notice that the latest Hiren's BootCD does come with Malwarebytes, and is labelling it as 'freeware'! I tried looking up their eula, and cannot easily find it (if exists?). I would conclude that if users are using (freeware) Malwarebytes they they are not restricted by, "can't be used for this purpose". As it would not be counted as reasonable for every single user to go to the manufacturers site to locate any policies that may be attached to already known freeware! (I also note that I could cause concern for the respected Hiren's BootCD bringing up this point, but I would also remind you that other BootCDs are likely already existing in many other places anyway. Oh, sorry, I tend to get involved and go on and on, I'm just going to say > gray, dependant upon application. But I'll adhere to Malwarebytes EULA anyway, of course

DarkSnakeKobra, on 08 December 2012 - 01:19 PM, said:

Thankyou 'student'. I also helped at many other forums too. Although I never received online 'certification'. I will say I'm very experienced, and have even chatted to sUBS in the past regarding malware removal concerns. I note that two malware removal guides I helped create are still running on respected support forums. Agreed I am not of an online 'malware removal specialist' level any longer, I certainly know what I'm doing though.

Thanks to you, and all others, for your help here. I feel my concerns have been addressed and grateful for the reponses provided

GT500, on 08 December 2012 - 03:50 AM, said:

Thanks for that GT500, well answered.
It is true that the 'computer retail shop', has its irritations for me (to say the least!). I am presently looked upon as slow and a little too involved. I can tell you, it doesn't work. So I stay there out of (present) need only basis. By the way it seems that a noisy internal hard drive or even faulty ram, means the client MUST buy a complete new system! Go figure, times have changed. People like me are 1. NOT respected 2. not needed anymore, in business. I come from the days when we even tested network cables (including modem lines) with protocol analyzers and multimeters and even checking voltages/currents with oscilloscopes.

As for software issues its > Re-install > Forget looking for recovery partitions (if it takes too long to read the manual, or google the answer) > Just 'format' (only) > Throw in Windows 7 (seemingly most common OS these days) > Hope for the best > Return to customer.
Wow I fixed a rootkit issue AND repaired (actually semi-clean!) Windows, whilst being a dummy. Except the name computer 'tech' is slowly getting a bad name because of it. Bring back the 90's. By 2020 I'm quite sure 'techs' will be obsolete entirely. That's an android's job.

Oh I get it, like a semicolon is used normally in every other place (ie mail; servers; etc).
OK then, I guess that's reasonable. I have seen the 'pole' idea before though, I think it was the original way we seperated drive letters a long time ago.

As for that double 'S' issue (top left of forum page). It seems to be the Facebook icon when signed out of the forum, but when signed into Malwarebytes forum it gets jumbled up to kimsland$s's (even though I'm not even signed into Facebook?).
Anyway, I'm sure you're aware of it.

OK thanks

Hmm, I've quoted Malwarebytes well over 5000 times on many forums over many years.
Did you notice the increase is revenue? Lol

With all this talk on Tacos I'm getting hungry, I suppose I could just buy some, but its just not the same thing!
I knew I should have stayed here longer! Live and learn.
Anyway, back to free supporting the 'web' I go

 exile360, on 07 May 2012 - 07:45 PM, said:

Thanks exile.

I see, because MBAMService.exe service and driver is running in kernel mode, a restart is (generally always) necessary.
I wasn't aware that this specific file runs in kernel mode, since that's the case. Then all answered well.
Actually I couldn't find information on the web stating this file itself specifically runs in kernel mode, is there a link to a topic that shows me all these special drivers of Malwarebytes that run in kernel mode? And which ones of malwarebytes exactly do?

I understand that most antivirus programs cannot be stopped normally, if you want to base this on 'kernel mode' issues then so be it. I'm pretty sure they corrupt all on their own, and therefore I normally would not recommend stopping these services ever! (ie uninstall only)

By the way, I've never seen 'system freezes/lockups' with manually stopping MBAMService but then again you are mostly dealing with corrupted/infected users computers. My system certainly does not cause any ill effect from doing so.