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by sam_goody 2835 days ago
Malwarebytes has had a few (seemingly) false positives lately. Anecdotally, I was just hit by it falsely flagging BeyondCompare and my password manager.

I assume they have just upped the ante of their heuristics, but am still concerned about the fallout, since I am starting to ignore them.

Not related, but considering that it does not scan except on demand, why is it ALWAYS running? Who vouches for Mr. Malwarebytes?
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jonathansampson 2835 days ago
It was indeed a false-positive: https://twitter.com/thomasareed/status/1039939712704819200. As for vouching for MB, I know some of the people behind the project, and they're spectacular. For years I have assisted with deobfuscating malicious JavaScript and more. They seem, to me, to have the purest of intentions.

(Not an official Brave endorsement, but I personally like their team)

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whoopdedo 2835 days ago
Not to mention more aggressive upselling in the free version via popups. Closing the application sends it to the system tray where it will later remind you to "update" MalwareBytes by buying a license.
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styfle 2835 days ago
In June, I too had an auto-update from Beyond Compare failing due to Malwarebytes and it made me think their servers were compromised. Nope, false positive.

It looks like this happens often enough, there is a whole page dedicated to false positives.

https://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_virus

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