I cant poll my fidonet hub without turning off Malwarebytes.

Any ideas for Windows 10/11?


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On 22 Jun 2025, Utopian Galt said the following...

I cant poll my fidonet hub without turning off Malwarebytes.

Any ideas for Windows 10/11?

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I run Malwarebytes as well. I don't have this issue so I looked for ways to "allow" the hubs IP address. Look under Settings/Scan and detection/Allow list. Put the IP address in the list and give that a try.

|11ogg
|11SysOp, Altair IV BBS
|11altairiv.ddns.net:2323

... That's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature

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Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-

I cant poll my fidonet hub without turning off Malwarebytes.

Any ideas for Windows 10/11?

Yes. I'd recommend dumping either/both of them, and using Linux.




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|11G|09> |10-=> Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-|07
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|11G|09> |10UG> I cant poll my fidonet hub without turning off Malwarebytes.|07 |11G|09> |07
|11G|09> |10UG> Any ideas for Windows 10/11?|07
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|11G|09> |10Yes. I'd recommend dumping either/both of them, and using Linux.|07
Then playing Final Fantasy 14 would suck. I would have to play it on a PS5 OR mac.


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Re: Re: Alternatives to Malwarebytes
By: Utopian Galt to Gamgee on Sun Jun 22 2025 08:28 pm

Then playing Final Fantasy 14 would suck. I would have to play it on a PS5 OR mac.

There are guides out there for playing Final Fantasy XIV on Linux, which suggests to me it works on Linux :-)


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I cant poll my fidonet hub without turning off Malwarebytes.
Any ideas for Windows 10/11?

Don't use Malwarebytes, I guess.

Defender AV and firewall in Windows 10/11 is perfectly cromulent to guard your system against all but the sketchiest of sketchy Limewire downloads and sophisticated skript kiddies!

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I cant poll my fidonet hub without turning off Malwarebytes.

Any ideas for Windows 10/11?

I don't know of any alternatives but can confirm that Malwarebytes causes issues. I had a couple of downlinks get temporarily cut off because they
were using it on their ends. Malwarebytes uses data picked up from
crawlers that flag systems that carry older DOS programs whose EXE files
are compressed with PKLITE and other EXE compressors... which means they
could potentially flag a lot of BBSes and other websites that have older shareware available for download.

I used to allow people to download without having a user account but cannot
do that any more because of scanners like Malwarebytes.


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