This is especially true on older, slower hardware and may not be the case if you own a bleeding edge PC. High CPU overhead (up to 25% CPU or more!) and a substantially slower system. The version she was using was 3.22 - the latest version available at the time of writing.īefore I get into the technical details about this issue, it should also be noted that Malwarebytes Antimalware now opts the user into the ' Premium Trial' version as the program has been installed, which means that all of the protection offered by the 'Premium Trial' is automatically turned on by default.Īs a general rule of thumb, the more antimalware / antivirus 'protection' you add to a PC, the more CPU processing is required to process any potential 'threats', which then translates to Remote desktop support service in order to have a closer look, and she agreed.Įverything Ramona said was true - the Malwarebytes service 'mbamservice.exe' was running 25% of her CPU non-stop. I asked Ramona if she would like me to connect to her machine using my I do not want to remove Malwarebytes in case I need to scan for another infection. I have tried reinstalling Malwarebytes Antimalware but it does not help. So I have effectively robbed Peter to pay Paul and the 'your computer is slow' error messages are still coming! I have waited over 10 minutes for the 'mbamservice.exe' to calm down, but it runs non-stop. The 'mbamservice.exe' is constantly causing high CPU load. I quarantined all the items, then rebooted and things are much better, however - now MBAM found over 1,700 'threats' - one of them was a rootkit.

I suspected I was infected with malware, so I downloaded Malwarebytes Antimalware and did a scan. I disabled the color scheme to fix the issue (as recommended) but the popups kept coming every 3 minutes or so. Recently My Windows 7 laptop kept popping up with ' Windows has detected that your computer's performance is slow' error messages.

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