want to be sure

Viruses and worms
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For the last few days my connection to the net seemed to be slower than normal, just thought it was my cable co. Then this morning I was going to do a full backup, step 1 of that is to update and run malwarebytes, and in my attempt to update it, I got this:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 11/12/2011
Time: 9:42:59 AM
User: N/A
Computer: Bxxxx
Description:
Faulting application mbam.exe, version 1.51.0.1118, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00030019.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 6d 62 61 ure mba
0018: 6d 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e m.exe 1.
0020: 35 31 2e 30 2e 31 31 31 51.0.111
0028: 38 20 69 6e 20 75 6e 6b 8 in unk
0030: 6e 6f 77 6e 20 30 2e 30 nown 0.0
0038: 2e 30 2e 30 20 61 74 20 .0.0 at
0040: 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 offset 0
0048: 30 30 33 30 30 31 39 0d 0030019.
0050: 0a .

This has never happened before so bells and alarms go off. Strange part is that the update did complete. I did close and restart mbam before running it and it did indeed run. Anyway, here’s the logs. I’m hoping it’s nothing, but in today’s world you never know.

2

Nothing apparent in the logs, are there any other symptoms ?

3

The only other thing I’ve noticed is that when I run Mbam now (quick scan) it seems to skip some files. That is the number checked jumps from about 1500 to 33000.

4

Just tried my MBAM out and I also have a jump about midway

5

Nice to know that Mbam appears to be skipping files there as well. That had me worried, especially after that event id 1000 that had happened when I went to update it earlier. No idea what that was all about, guess I won’t be concerned about it unless it happens again.
Thanks for checking Essexboy. Now go have 6 or 12 cold ones! :slight_smile:

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Well I generally don’t sit watching a scan ticking over (like watching paint dry), generally I fire and forget, come back and see it has finished.

So I ran a quick scan and sat watching it, god 3min 44sec is an eternity (168823 objects scanned), but no big jumps at all. I had a couple of pauses where the file type being last scanned was a .lnk (so may have been checking the various links) and a .mof file type.

@ Bluemeanie
According to the event log, you don’t have the latest version of MBAM, which is 1.51.2.1300 (as far as I’m aware as my Pro version auto updates. So I would get the latest version as there is little point in chasing down problems in old versions.