This is the first screen you will see when you click on Settings in the Menu Bar.
It controls the basic look and feel of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
A screenshot of this screen is shown below.
There are four settings which can be configured here. They are as follows:
Notifications
Notifications regarding rules database updates, program updates, and scan operations occur in notification windows.
These windows appear at the lower right corner of your screen, outside of the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware interface.
You may enable or disable these notifications.
Notifications are enabled by default.
Please note that some non-critical information may not be visible if you disable notifications.
Also, certain notifications may not be disabled.
They will continue to be displayed regardless of this setting.
Notifications which cannot be disabled are listed below.
In many cases, these notifications will disappear after the amount of time selected by the Close Notification setting.
Others exhibit different behavior.
If this is the case, their behavior is also listed below.
Trial Expired: You may close this notification temporarily by clicking the Later button, or permanently by clicking End Trial, or Buy Now.
This notification will appear only in Trial mode.
If you click Later, this notification will appear each time you launch the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware user interface.
Malware Detected (auto-quarantine): This notification will only appear in Trial or Premium modes.
Malware Detected (manual quarantine): This notification is associated with real-time protection, and prompts you to choose how the threat should be handled.
You may choose to Allow Once (temporarily ignore the detection), Allow Always (add the threat to the Exclusion List), or Quarantine.
If you do not respond with a specific action within forty (40) seconds, the threat will be quarantined automatically.
This notification will only appear in Trial or Premium modes.
Non-Malware Detected (manual quarantine): This notification is associated with real-time protection, and your decision to treat PUPs/PUMs as malware.
You will be prompted to choose how the threat should be handled.
You may choose to Allow Once (temporarily ignore the detection), Allow Always (add the threat to the Exclusion List), or Quarantine.
If you do not respond with a specific action within forty (40) seconds, the threat will be quarantined automatically.
This notification will only appear in Trial or Premium modes.
Malicious Website Blocked: This notification is associated with real-time protection.
You may click the Manage Web Exclusions link to review current web exclusions.
This notification will automatically disappear.
This notification will only appear in Trial or Premium modes.
Scan Complete � Malware Detected: Malware was detected during execution of a scan.
Click the notification to view scan results.
This notification will automatically disappear.
Scan Complete � Non-Malware Detected: Non-malware (PUPs/PUMs) was detected during execution of a scan.
Click the notification to view scan results.
This notification will automatically disappear.
Databases Out of Date: Malwarebytes threat signatures are out of date.
Click Update Now to attempt to update threat signatures.
This notification will automatically disappear upon an update attempt, but will reappear if the update was unsuccessful.
See Update Settings later in this guide for information pertaining to this setting.
Protection Disabled: Real-time protection has been disabled.
This may be due to user selection, and may be an indication of system and/or malware problems.
This notification will remain on screen until real-time protection is functioning normally.
This notification will only appear in Trial or Premium modes.
Close Notification
When a notification window is displayed on your screen, it remains visible for a time period which you configure here.
That time is configurable in a range of 3-15 seconds.
The default time is 3 seconds.
Language
This setting determines the language used throughout the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware program.
This is pre-set, based on the language used during program installation.
It can be modified at will.
Explorer context menu entry
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware has the capability to launch a Threat Scan upon one or more individual files or directories from within Windows Explorer by using the context menu that becomes available when the files/directories are right-clicked.
This setting allows that capability to be turned on or off.
The default setting is Yes (on).
PLEASE NOTE: If you had previously disabled this feature, the version 2.2.1 program update requires you to disable the feature following the update.
Once disabled, that setting will be retained.
