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  • 10 months later...

Hello and :welcome:

 

Advanced settings is only available to the Pro (Premium) version as well as the 14 Day Trial, it is not available in the FREE version. The Trial Version will convert to the FREE version after the 14 Day Trial.

I am now uninstalling for this reason.  A free user cannot stop the program from starting at windows start.  That's just nonsense.... 

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I am now uninstalling for this reason.  A free user cannot stop the program from starting at windows start.  That's just nonsense....

 

The free version does not and should not be starting at Windows startup.

 

So, let's start here:

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  • 4 weeks later...

Unfortunately it would seem that Malwarebytes is going the way of other free programs and the free version isn't worth having.

I also am not happy that I can't stop a program loading with Windows and will not use a program that behaves this way

I will either go back to an earlier version and put up with the update requests, or, regretfully, uninstall it completely.

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Hello--

 

Hopefully I can clarify.  

 

The "Advanced Settings" referred to here are indeed only available to Premium and Trial users. But most of those settings, including "Automatically quarantine" and "Start MBAM with Windows" don't even apply to the Free version.

 

The way it's currently presented in the interface is rather confusing because it does make it seem like those options are pre-checked and enabled for Free with no ability to disable.  

 

However, those settings that you see grayed out are simply the default values that would be enabled were you to upgrade to the Premium version.

 

The Free version runs scans on-demand only and thus offers no real-time protection.  As such, it doesn't automatically start with Windows.  You must always launch it whenever you want to run a scan.  This hasn't changed.

 

Same with automatic quarantine.  This option only refers to any threats detected as part of the Premium product's real-time protection.  Since there is no real-time protection in Free, this one also doesn't apply.

 

I've made a note of the confusion the way it's handled in the UI has caused and we'll see if we can improve this in a later update.   :)

 

Hope that helps -- there have been absolutely no recent changes to the Free version regarding these settings and the way the Free version behaves.

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