Malwarebytes related fail.

**bust331** · 10-23-09, 04:56 PM

This was pretty funny. I ran malwarebytes to make sure I didn't have any viruses, I did pick one up.

I right clicked "Jump to location"

It sent me straight to the malwarebytes download file.

It listed it as a Heuristic file, I didn't know what that meant so I clicked Vendor Information, and this was the description it gave.

A technique designed to detect malware by empirical means but without having the specific data.

So Malwarebytes is saying Malwarebytes reports things without any specifics....lol

**Tuck** · 10-23-09, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by bust331

This was pretty funny. I ran malwarebytes to make sure I didn't have any viruses, I did pick one up.

I right clicked "Jump to location"

It sent me straight to the malwarebytes download file.

It listed it as a Heuristic file, I didn't know what that meant so I clicked Vendor Information, and this was the description it gave.

A technique designed to detect malware by empirical means but without having the specific data.

So Malwarebytes is saying Malwarebytes reports things without any specifics....lol

Doesn't that just mean that malwarebytes recognizes some form of malware but can't exactly identify it? Maybe google any other info the scan gave you and/or about heuristic viruses/malware to find out more. Hopefully it's nothing real bad...I had one of those adobe trojans on my laptop and it was a complete bitch.

**Red_Lizard2** · 10-23-09, 08:42 PM

if your using an older version, i believe MB used to have a file or two it used to install but afterwords it wouldn't delete it (so IIRC you had some useless file sitting around in your reg) one of the updates that came out would mark that file as a virus and you were told to delete it as it was harmless (just MB doing some clean up)