{"id":246611,"date":"2018-01-29T07:38:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T05:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=246611"},"modified":"2018-01-29T07:40:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T05:40:49","slug":"malwarebytes-update-spikes-memory-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/246611-malwarebytes-update-spikes-memory-usage.html","title":{"rendered":"Malwarebytes update spikes memory usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malwarebytes recently published a protection update that <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/malwarebytes-news\/2018\/01\/important-web-blocking-ram-usage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>caused connection issues<\/strong><\/a> for many of its customers.<\/p>\n<p>As a side effect of the web protection blocks, the product also spiked memory usage and possibly caused crashes.<\/p>\n<p>The company subsequently pushed a new protection update that should resolve the problem for most users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the update does not resolve the issue automatically for you, please shut down web protection, check for protection updates, and restart your computer,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forums.malwarebytes.com\/topic\/220112-important-web-blocking-ram-usage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the issue was a malformed protection update that the client couldn&#8217;t process correctly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to overhaul how we publish these protection updates so that this never happens again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/238890-uber-hack-shows-vulnerability-of-software-code-sharing-services.html\">Uber hack shows vulnerability of software code-sharing services<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Malwarebytes protection update has caused connection issues and spiked memory usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":123802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31208],"class_list":["post-246611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-malwarebytes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246639,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246611\/revisions\/246639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}