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1. #MALWAREBYTES FREE WINDOWS 10 INSTALL#
2. #MALWAREBYTES FREE WINDOWS 10 UPDATE#
3. #MALWAREBYTES FREE WINDOWS 10 FULL#

When downgrading the installation from the full 2 week trial to the free version, Malwarebytes probably removes the key because, in the free edition, registering with the Windows Action Center is an option that’s greyed out at the bottom of the Application tab of the Settings menu item. I think I may have, finally! Turns out, Malwarebytes REMOVES the registry key if it’s set to not be registered with Windows Security Center, as seen in this post from their forums: Since I started this topic, I thought I’d try to find a solution or a reason for the behavior. To ensure the registry key gets replaced (or never removed by the Malwarebytes downgrade process in the first place), make sure your installed default anti-malware solution monitors individual program behavior as well as scanning files downloaded onto your computer and/or opened up on your computer. :-[ That situation was remedied as soon as I discovered it.

I did not have that happen because of one of the settings in my free anti-malware solution being mis-applied by me. He also states in the post he refers you to that after rebooting his machine, the registry key had returned, suggesting that it had been put back there by his installed default anti-malware solution, Trend Micro Internet Security.

#MALWAREBYTES FREE WINDOWS 10 UPDATE#

No need to uninstall a perfectly good program due to the update process.Īs mentions in post # 174890 above which refers the reader to another post, he found that after installing the newer version of Malwarebytes and then downgrading it from the full edition free two week trial to the plain ol’ free edition, the registry key was removed, thereby indicating that Malwarebytes had removed it during the downgrade. If someone has seen reports of this on the Malwarebytes forums, please feel free to post a link here to help everyone else out. The update on the first machine was done back on Wednesday the 7th of March. By the way, the update procedure on the second machine was done earlier this morning, the 10th of March Pacific Daylight Time. Immediately after completing the update procedure, I checked for the registry key and it was GONE, thus proving that Malwarebytes’ program update procedure erased the registry key, not the definition update procedure. NET and Windows Monthly Rollup that had been there just a few days before.Īfter looking for the compatibility key on a second Win7 machine with the specs mentioned above and finding it present, I proceeded with updating Malwarebytes 3.3.1 Free as detailed above.

#MALWAREBYTES FREE WINDOWS 10 INSTALL#

How did I find out this happened? I went to install Windows updates this past Thursday the 8th of March after seeing that we’d been moved by Da Boss to DEFCON 3, and I was suddenly missing the. This is just intended as a heads up for everyone, since we’re at MS-DEFCON 3 as I write this. In the key, there should be a REG_DWORD labeled “cadca5fe-87d3-4b96-b7fb-a231484277cc” and its value should be set to zero (0). Said registry compatibility key is as follows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Qualit圜ompat. I then proceeded to recreate it and viola, I’m now all set. Upon rebooting, I discovered that the registry key for antimalware program compatibility was completely gone.

I promptly went back into the Settings panel and clicked on the “Account Details” tab where I promptly clicked the button to deactivate the free trial, and provided a reason why I deactivated said trial.ĥ. Once the update finished, I was presented with a free 14 day trial of the premium version. A new version was found, so I allowed the installation of said update to proceed.Ĥ. This is NOT to be confused with the downloading and installing of definition updates which uses another completely separate process.ģ. Once there, click on the “Install Application Updates” button, which launched the program updater to check for new versions. Launch Malwarebytes free and go into the Settings panel.Ģ. Restoring the key brought back full WU functionality.ġ. In BOTH instances, the update process removed the registry key that denotes antimalware program compatibility to receive Windows security updates and. I’ve just updated two Win7 圆4 SP1 computers from Malwarebytes Free 3.3.1 to Malwarebytes Free 3.4.4.