IMPORTANT: Web Blocking / RAM Usage (Malwarebytes Labs)

[douglas9]

Earlier this morning, we published a protection update that caused connection issues for many of our customers. As a side effect of the web protection blocks, the product also spiked memory usage and possibly caused a crash.

We have triaged this issue and pushed a protection update that resolves it.


https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2018/01/important-web-blocking-ram-usage/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Thanks for posting this.

I've been dealing with my desktop crashing since yesterday, and I recall getting the Malwarebyte update around that same time.

I'm not expert in computer fixing, and I plan to call my IT guy tomorrow and have him fix it. I hope he can do so remotely. It looks as though he'll be able to.

Strange that my laptop is working! I have Malwarebytes here as well.

[Clarity2]

2. Omg

This happened to me yesterday! I was going nuts thinking my computer was hacked or hard drive going. I got the black screen of death twice. Could not clikc on anything. Had to cold reboot and then did a restore from previous point. I lost an enourmous amt of important emails. The restore backed most in a hidden file which took me hrs to figure out.

Ticked I never got an email from malwarebytes. I finally figured out it was them, seeing the web protection wouldnt enable. Did the whole malewarebyte clean software and reinstalled.

Yeesh.

[teach1st]

3. I uninstalled it last week

Malwarebytes is my backup protection, anyway. I have tons of memory and MB was using it all.