For those of you who use MalwareBytes, you should be aware they just came out with a new version (1.60.xx) and a new database definition naming convention. I’ve installed it on several systems with no problems.
But tonight I was working on a system, and did the regular in place upgrade of MalwareBytes. However, upon completion of the update process, MalwareByrt crashed on start up. Rebooting the computer did not help. So I uninstalled MalwareBytes, rebooted and then installed it clean. It still crashed on startup.
Fortunately, a quick Internet search identified that several other people had encountered this same issue with the new version of MalwareBytes. Fortunately, someone had a fix to the problem. I was not aware that MalwareBytes had their own standalone uninstall/cleanup utility program. So I downloaded it, ran it, rebooted, reinstalled MalwareBytes and now it starts up fine.
Here’s the link to the cleanup utility, straight from MalwareBytes’ web site:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam-clean.exe.