A few weeks ago my old old (did I say old) HP running XP (I said it was old!) died.
I brought a Win 7 64 bit Pro machine on and did the updates to the operating system, updated the USB to COM port software, and downloaded the most recent WD and thanks to Brian’s quick turn around with registration keys, was back on line downloading data, generating charts, and updating my web server page.
After Malwarebytes ran automatically two Sundays ago, I came to the computer in the morning only to see that WD had shut down, and GraphWeather had nothing to plot. And on the desktop, the short cut icon to the WD install was gone. Well, what the heck. No notification that Malwarebytes had found anything, so I went to the wxdisplay folder to find the WeatherDisplay.exe, create a new shortcut to it and be happy again. But WeatherDisplay.exe was not in the wxdisplay folder, nor had it seemed to have been moved anywhere, it was just gone. Well, a re-unzip of the update WD file did the trick, WeatherDisplay.exe was back and a desktop short cut quickly made and worked. Until last night, when once again Malwarebytes ran on the machine, my monitor had no friendly graph on it, GraphWeather showed blank data and looking for the WeatherDisplay.exe in the wxdisplay folder, it once again was AWOL. Again, reunzipped, etc and back running.
What has me thinking (as I delete Malwarebytes from my computer and reboot) what does Malwarebytes do and do it without signalling having found any malware or spyware or whatever? I also have the Microsoft Essentials which seems not to have any problems, and I run SuperAntiSpyware and it doesn’t remove programs, but sure wipes out my logins to slite I frequent and have to remember passwords to get back in (these aren’t real concerening sites, and if I didn’t need a password, I’d not use one.
Anyone know about Malwarebytes being fixated on removing the WeatherDisplay.exe program?
I’ve never see any other links get broken from the desktop to the program, and never seen programs removed like this without being flagged or me given a choice to ignore the warning that something might be malware.