Tips & Tricks Prevent Malwarebytes Corporate from modifying Windows host file [Trick]

[Mr. Spacely]

Update, it seems they made some changes since I used it last time so yes hosts can't be added anymore, my bad

 

[pascalwil]

Thanks

 

[SiteWizard]

@juanamm this is trane because i use also the corporate version see here

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and i can access my dir ect that is in the system32 dir look here

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[Mr. Spacely]

@juanamm this is trane because i use also the corporate version see here

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and i can access my dir ect that is in the system32 dir look here

You must be registered for see links

Yes buddy, but here we are talking just about "hosts" file in general

 

[SiteWizard]

@Iceman96 yes i know i have check that file and nothing was changed (lol) my host files is like it should be only 2 lines in it and protected / armed so no other program can change that file

 

[Mr. Spacely]

@Iceman96 yes i know i have check that file and nothing was changed (lol) my host files is like it should be only 2 lines in it and protected / armed so no other program can change that file

@SiteWizard it must be some good spell on it then

 

[Daniel001]

Yes, this is what I'm always doing, for many years, after any edit of hosts file I change it to read only and it's safe. Never ever problems with it.

 

[Northboun]

To add the host file to exclude:
edit host file and add the MB host block from readme
do a scan and MB will flag the host file
check it and add to exclude
done

 

[rodrigo guaraciaba]

Very nice !!!

 

[Baronstragen]

To add the host file to exclude:
edit host file and add the MB host block from readme
do a scan and MB will flag the host file
check it and add to exclude
done

This is exactly how I did it. Modify the hosts file, let Malwarebytes detect it and click "Ignore Always"
No file permissions need be modified.

 

[roadlizard62]

I waited until today to answer you waiting for MB's behavior.
So far MB has not broken the read-only attribute, so I think it is a simple solution and it works.
In this specific case I will not change the access permissions of System, but it is a good idea for other programs that can break the attributes of the files.
Thank you very much for your suggestion.

Put a etc folder shortcut on the desktop before installing MB.That should work!

 

[juanamm]

Put a etc folder shortcut on the desktop before installing MB.That should work!

To add the host file to exclude:
edit host file and add the MB host block from readme
do a scan and MB will flag the host file
check it and add to exclude
done

This is exactly how I did it. Modify the hosts file, let Malwarebytes detect it and click "Ignore Always"
No file permissions need be modified.

@Northboun, @Baronstragen thank you for your suggestion, excuse me but this thread was not notifying me and I just now see your responses.
It seems currently MB no longer messes with the HOST file.
I modified the file, scanned it with MB and it doesn't detect malicious elements.
I even added this line 127.0.0.1 www.malwarebytes.com trying to get it to detect it, but it continued without detecting anything and without adding the # before the hosts.
Issue solved!

 

[mobi0001]

Actually in my company where I work, they have specific version of MB and Avast. I can see that in my PC for example it does not scan host via MB but Avast does. So I checked our group policies and there is a clause which mentions that hosts and few IIC files to be excluded by design. Probably specific to my company, but that is how it is here too. Luckily I use Nod32 only.