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Thread ID: 97593 2009-02-21 00:02:00 What am I doing wrong with MalwareBytes? tuiruru (12277) Press F1
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749876 2009-02-22 05:35:00 E Mail to F1 re: MalwareBytes problems.
UPDATE
Hi evreryone. I’m not sure what I have or haven’t done. To save a lot of time read the preceding posts.
I first uninstalled MalwareBytes. I then (un)(re)installed all the options suggested (except Trojan Remover cos it cost money) including the ones I already had using Revo Uninstaller, made sure the program and signature files were updated and ran them one by one. They threw up a few things but nothing like the 66 problems Mbytes had reported, These were removed and a full shutdown and restart was performed followed by a system restore point being established before running the next app.
At some stage in all this I had installed and run Comodo Registry Cleaener and that certainly helped - eg the shortcut to System Restore on my Desktop presented the dialogue box in about 42 sec instead of just over three minutes.
I had my suspicions about Spybot D & D because every so often it asked permission to change a registry setting so I uninstalled that.
I then reinstalled MalwareBytes, did the full deep scan and no problems were reported! So, was it some redundant registry entries, a corrupt installation, the order in which I’d installed the various bits of software – I guess we’ll never know? I’ll give it a couple of days and reinstall Spybot to see if that triggers something, Then of course there’s the Firewall problem to think about – see forums.pcworld.co.nz
Oh, and by the way, Flashgot and Flashget have stopped picking up downloads with Firefox 3.xx – durrr so do I uninstall and reinstall them, and is there a better download manager out there?
Thanks for the input
tuiruru (12277)
749877 2009-02-22 05:43:00 Alternative Download Manager would be DownThemALL

Best ever, integrates itself into firefox too
Blam (54)
749878 2009-02-22 05:52:00 I personally use freeDownloadmanager (http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/) - works well, never any problems so far. wainuitech (129)
749879 2009-02-22 22:35:00 Hi Blam and WainT

Thanks for the advice. Now, I've been suing Flashgot cos it says I need it to integrate download managers like Flashget (confusing isn't it?) with Firefox. Do I still need it with the ones you have suggested?

Sorry to be a pain, but thanks
tuiruru (12277)
749880 2009-02-23 04:31:00 DownThemAll integrates within FF.
Personally I reckon its best, but if you like Flashget, then you can continue using it
Blam (54)
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