Jay Freedman wrote:Chris, MalwareBytes is used to dealing with -- yup --
malware. If some smartalec hacker could sneak a malicious program onto your computer and modify the MalwareBytes icon to run that program instead, you know where the blame would land.
So besides protecting its core code, MWB protects its icon. The only way to change or delete the icon (at least, I hope it's the only way) is to turn off MWB's self-protection temporarily.
Thanks Jay, this all makes sense and I had secretly suspected that MWB was protecting me from myself.
That said, I'm still (but only mildly) puzzled as to why MWB suspects that a smartalec could get onto my computer and effect a change to the shortcut icon.
I get your line of logic absolutely.
But it seems to me that if a smartalec can get close enough to modify a desktop icon, then I'm "already dead", so to speak.
I had issues some ten+ years ago with a colleague's version of one of the two popular anti-virus packages that wouldn't allow my buddy to declare that my (locked) utility template was OK (we were in partnership, after all) and, of course, wouldn't allow my buddy to remove the anti-virus package from his system. I suspect my pal was the more aggravated of the two of us.
Cheers.
Chris
