Now I cannot scan for rootkits. To be honest I cannot recall now whether or not I could scan for them with the old version or not either. But with this new version if I go to the detections panel and enable scanning for rootkits (why isn't it turned on by default?) the moment I try to do a scan this little window opens up that says:
Needless to say, the DDA Driver never ends up loaded and I don't get to scan for rootkits.Malwarebytes was unable to load the Anti-Rootkit DDA Driver, this error may be caused by rootkit activity. Do you want to reboot the system and attempt to install the Driver?
(If you don't choose to reboot, Anti-Rootkit scanning will be disabled for this session).
Yes/No
Now I'm 99 44/100% sure I do not have any root kits. I've scanned and scanned this PC and done scans after rebooting to safe mode with networking with all my anti malware programs and found nothing.
I did some homework on this problem a while back, and it seems it's been around for a few years. There were lots of posts at the Malwarebytes help forums dating back upwards of 5 years where users cannot scan for rootkits either. The solutions offered involved a lot of "rigmarole" or as I would put it, "farting around" by the user in order to solve the issue. Sometimes the solutions worked, often they did not.
So, does the older version of the program work better? Does it allow scanning for rootkits? Or should I just be happy with Malwarebytes as it is, and hope that Microsoft Security Essentials will be good enough?
I have even downloaded the "Microsoft Support Emergency Response Tool" and run that to be safe(r).
But I would really like to know if an easier fix for this problem ever comes about. Malwarebytes Free has such a good reputation and I'd like to use it to its full potential.