Malwarebytes Assistant UAC prompt on exit

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Briefly explain your current issue(s)
Exiting Malwarebytes from tray requires UAC elevation for Malwarebytes Assistant.
Steps taken to resolve, but have been unsuccessful
Startup disabled. Notifications disabled. All real-time protection disabled.
Why does Malwarebytes (all real-time protection disabled) require UAC elevation for Malwarebytes Assistant when choosing to exit from the tray icon?
 
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Hi @root/ !

For me, I always have to type in the credentials to ensure that Malwarebyte closes out correctly. UAC is required; however, you can make tweaks to turn stuff off - there is a will there is a way! Personally, I'd leave it be. Don't go muddying up permissions.

I hope others chime in too!

Hopefully, my response helps you!

Thanks,

Brian
 
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root/ said:
require UAC elevation for Malwarebytes Assistant when choosing to exit from the tray icon?
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that's d standard... & btw exiting from tray icon actually terminates the program itself, not just d GUI. & I hope I don't have to tell you why MB does need elevation. If you are still confused about it, please allow me to understand your confusion.
 
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yitworths said:
that's d standard... & btw exiting from tray icon actually terminates the program itself, not just d GUI. & I hope I don't have to tell you why MB does need elevation. If you are still confused about it, please allow me to understand your confusion.
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Hi @root/ !

@yitworths Is absolutely correct. Exiting the tray icon does terminate the entire program itself. Some people do not understand that scenario with Malwarebytes. @yitworths Thanks for pointing this out. I believe some people get confused about this as well.

~Brian
 
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@yitworths @Lightning_Brian These points make sense if real-time protection was enabled. All real-time security software prompt for UAC elevation if you try to pause or exit protection.

However, as @Azure Phoenix said, like ZAM, it shouldn't be asking for UAC elevation since it is just an on-demand scanner at that point. I don't know a single other on-demand scanner that requires UAC elevation to exit.
 
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@root/ Indeed I do not see a ton of applications that require UAC to quite. However, I do have real-time protection enabled when I use Malwarebytes so this may come into play here.

ZAM doesn't require elevation at all from the best of my knowledge. Unless one changes settings and security permissions on a given computer.

~Brian
 
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@root/ UAC elevation prompts for a consent UI... there are some tricks/methods to bypass it. & regarding ZAM, it probably uses one of those tricks. Administrator right is needed to scan or access some of your critical files or folders, so without that ZAM wouldn't be able to scan your pc properly. or if ZAM doesn't use any UAC_skip trick then it probably loads some of its services during system start-up.

& regarding malwarebytes, it asks UAC consent because malwarebytes core service/process gets terminated. This is the same service/process which MBAM uses to scan your pc in its premium version. I don't see any anomaly in its behaviour for asking UAC permission. If it would have asked UAC consent during start-up(on-demand), then it would not ask for UAC elevation on exiting. Now, that's malwarebytes' choice, what can I/you do? Hope,it helps. Tbh, I'm much more comfortable with asking for UAC permission than bypassing it.
 
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