Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware 0.9.16.484 Beta 7
Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware monitors all activity in the computer and identifies actions which are typical of ransomware activity. It keeps track of all activity and, once it has enough evidence to determine a certain process or thread to be ransomware, blocks the infection and quarantines the ransomware before it has a chance to encrypt users' files. During development Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware has blocked every single ransomware variant we have thrown at it. We are extremely satisfied with its results and are excited to bring this technology to our user community for further testing.
As this is the very first beta we do encourage beta users to install the product in non-production environments for testing purposes.
Change Log for Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware (BETA) 0.9.16.484
Known Issue:
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If installing the upgrade on Windows 8.1 x64 over a previous Beta, the service may not start automatically. In this case, simply click Start Protection on the Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware dashboard or run the Beta installer a second time.
Improvements:
- New ransomware variants of DMA Locker, CryptoXXX and CryptoJoker are now detected
- Improved remediation, including ability to kill a process and more complete removal of ransomware traces
- Performance improvements to prevent high CPU and memory usage
- Further enhancements to prevent false positives
- Added tray icon status indicator whenever protection is disabled
- Added version information to About page to indicate specific component package installed
- Enhanced messaging after a BETA has expired so that it's clear a new version should be installed
- Updated the dialog message shown when attempting to restore a file marked for deletion to clarify that restoring cannot proceed until after the reboot
Issues Fixed:
- Fixed issue where shutdown times increased after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware
- Fixed issue where Microsoft Office applications would only open files as Read Only
- Fixed issue where detections were triggered on an excluded process
- Fixed issue where Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware was not the active window immediately after installation
- Fixed issue where resizing a column in a table could make it disappear from view
- Fixed issue when deleting multiple items from quarantine where only half of the items were actually deleted
- Fixed issue where quarantined items were not always listed in chronological order after restoring or deleting items from the list