I just ran a full Malwarebyte scan today and came up with these 2 items. The Rogue bit is supposedly caused by a fake version of MSE. I downloaded mine from the Microsoft site and even confirmed it today by attempting to download it again. I was told that MSE was already installed on my machine. So I know my version of MSE is legit.

The Don't. Steal bit has something to do with a company (Obit, I believe). Which has supposedly pirated some proprietary components of Malwarebytes for their anti-malware app.

Interestingly, when the scan was over I got a message on my toolbar that Malwarebytes had been blocked from the startup menu.

Since I have the real version of MSE, I'm just wondering how I picked up this Rogue.Fake.MSE bug? And how about the Don't.Steal,etc. thing? Where do you pick this stuff up? I'm very careful about what sites I visit.

Fred

I did read that a company stole Malwarebytes code and they caught them by releasing false virus definitions which turned up in the other companies updates. Don't know if that helps you. There is still ill feeling between the two though.

Originally Posted by ilikefree

I did read that a company stole Malwarebytes code and they caught them by releasing false virus definitions which turned up in the other companies updates. Don't know if that helps you. There is still ill feeling between the two though.

These items turned up after a Mawarebytes full scan and then Malwarebytes was disabled from my start menu. And the Rogue.Fake.MSE..? Where could that have come from, since I know I have a legit version of MSE downloaded from their website???

Fred

Originally Posted by tom982

Perhaps they didn't come from that source then.

Do you download any illegal content? Because this is often a source of viruses.

No. but just uninstalled MSE and downloaded a fresh version, ran the Malwarebytes sacn and came up with Rogue.Fake.Mse again. Malwarebytes was again disabled.

Originally Posted by tom982

So malware bytes disabled itself?

I guess that's what happened. I was running a full scan with Malwarebytes and at the end it found 2 or 3 instances of the Rogue.Fake.MSN. I chose to delete them, restarted the computer and got a message on the toolbar that Malware bytes had been disabled. I'm now running a scan with a-squared to see what it comes up with.

Originally Posted by tom982

Alright, let me know how that goes.

Do you have CCleaner?

a-squared is still scanning. I don't have CCleaner. Had it once but removed it because of erratic behavior. Can't remember what the problem was, but just remember there were some issues with it. Would you recommend running CCleaner? I know lot's of people recommend it.