What's new in Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware 0.9.20 Beta 11
Apr 15, 2022
- Improved detection quality for several ransomware variants
- Corrected a silent block which occurred with an application communicating via command line with an external device using a COM port
New in Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware 0.9.19.73 Beta 10 (Feb 4, 2021)
- Improved performance in handling user exclusions that are in the hundreds or more
- Improved protection, detection and remediation for popular ransomware variants
New in Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware 0.9.19.56 Beta 10 (Feb 4, 2021)
- Performance/protective capability:
- Improved detection and remediation of several ransomware variants
- Improved protection of system critical processes
- Fixed bug which interfered with Windows Updates on Windows 10
- Various cosmetic improvements
- Stability/issues fixed:
- New installer program now being used
- Improved install/upgrade/uninstall behavior and compatibility with other Malwarebytes products:
- Fixed bugs which caused silent blocks in Visual Studio, Android Studio
- Fixed bug related to SAP plugin as used in Outlook email client
- Fixed bug related to safe ejection of specific USB drives
- Various minor bug fixes and performance enhancements
New in Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware 0.9.18.797 Beta 9 (Aug 1, 2017)
- Performance/protective capability:
- Improved memory usage
- Numerous enhanced ransomware protection techniques and remediation capabilities
- Usability:
- Added ability for administrators to define proxy settings during deployment via CLI
- Stability/issues fixed:
- Fixed issue where MBARW is causing the system to boot into Temporary Profile
- Fixed issue where MBARW crashes after reboot
New in Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware 0.9.17.661 Beta 8 (Sep 8, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Further fine-tuned behavioral detection techniques
- Main GUI now closes to the tray instead of only minimizing to the taskbar
- Added support to allow exclusion of folders in addition to individual files
- Performance improvements to prevent high CPU and memory usage
- Further enhancements to prevent false positives
- Numerous enhancements to harden the product against malicious tampering attempts
- Added basic command line functions for Business version to allow ability to start or stop protection, add or remove exlcusions and restore an item from quarantine
- Created an MSI version of the Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware installer for Business version
- Improved side-by-side usage with other Business versions of Malwarebytes products: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware v. 1.x and Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit v. 1.x
- Issues Fixed:
- Fixed a crash that could occur after a detection and required reboot
- Fixed issue where deselecting rows in Quarantine did not work properly
- Fixed issue where Dashboard showed mismatched protection state, e.g. showed as disabled even though it was properly enabled and active
- Fixed issue where a detection alert would display with no detail populated
New in Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware 0.9.16.484 Beta 7 (Jun 13, 2016)
- 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
New in Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware 0.9.15.416 Beta 6 (Mar 29, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Further refinements to internal rules to reduce potential for false positives
- Refactored processing to reduce memory consumption and prevent system hangs
- Added ability to update internal rules dynamically without requiring a full program update so new detections and fixes for false positives can be deployed much more rapidly
- Changed log collection to happen asynchronously
- Issues Fixed:
- Notification that a new version is available no longer auto-dismisses
- Fixed issue where an Exclusion may not have been honored properly in some cases
- Fixed issue where the protection status was not remembered correctly after a program update
New in Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware 0.9.14.361 Beta 5 (Feb 13, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Improved internal log format to better distinguish between the various Anti-Ransomware beta versions
- Adjusted embedded license so that earlier beta versions could be expired and users would be encouraged to move off older versions and onto the latest available beta
- Issues Fixed:
- Fixed issue that caused high-CPU and memory usage and resulted in a process crash in certain cases
- Fixed issue where the current state of the protection status was not remembered correctly after a reboot
New in Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware 0.9.12.336 Beta 4 (Feb 8, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Improved rules to prevent false positives on legitimate software
- Enhanced logging to aid in preventing future false positives
- Removed Build Date from About page to prevent confusion, as this was not always the same date as when the installer was built
- Issues Fixed:
- Fixed issue where Windows 10 was incorrectly reported as Windows 8 in the logs
New in Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware 0.9.9.314 Beta 3 (Feb 2, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Enhancements to prevent false positives on legitimate software
- Issues Fixed:
- Fixed issue that could have led to program crash when enabling protection