JerryIrons

I can confirm that the latest update and definitions worked for me. In fact I watched it happen before my eyes, I saw an older xp machine, with version 1.70 running. I started up task manager to watch the cpu, and then updated it up to version 1.75, and immediately it bogged down, also complaining that the database was 11 days old. 99 or 100% cpu mbam service. I got it to update the database while sluggish, and just like magic cpu percentage dropped to normal.

I had a windows 7 pc with this same problem, was unbootable even in safe mode. It would boot up to a black screen with a fully functioning mouse but no log in. But a system restore got me up and running and I was able to restore items in quarantine.

Thanks guys for looking into this. Does it make sense in the short term to release an update, when installed that detects if xp is the OS, and disable website blocking by default ?

Thanks I will do that if necessary, just wanted to let you guys know this behavior was happening with other systems as well and wasn't unique. -Jerry

I am seeing this as well on my xp systems, the workstation becomes completely unusable and just bogs down. You can't even go into process manager and kill the mbam service, it just freezes the system. Uninstalling malwarebytes fixes it like magic. It seems to be worse with the latest update, but just a guess. I have not run the mbam clean tool, and then tried to install fresh, has anyone else tried this?