# trouble with Win 8 and Malwarebytes

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-win-8-and-malwarebytes/677278
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 27, 2013, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-win-8-and-malwarebytes/677278 "2013-12-27T08:00:24Z")
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### Author: ![MaltLiquor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@MaltLiquor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaltLiquor)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2013, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-with-win-8-and-malwarebytes/677278/1 "2013-12-27T08:00:24Z")

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I thought I have kept this clean but Malwarebytes is cathing over a hundred files it considers not safe. I have not gone to 8.1, have a few pics from Reddit, Ventrilo, Lotro, Chrome, defraggler (not used yet), CCleaner and Norton Security downloaded from comcast. I keep this clean, There have been a couple on this besides me that went to Wiki and Facebook and I think that is about it.

I am not sure if the Alienware has the dell factory restore but I kept this clean just for this reason. I only play lotro now but that is only because MMO’s suck at the moment. I bought this for gaming…mmo, maybe a new CIV, something new, hell it was 5 years old. Has anyone had problems with this? I found a few files that looked like trojans and got rid of them but the rest seem to be in the registry. Should I just give it a go and restore if it goes bad?