drmikenyc wrote:
Super easy solution - worked quickly and effectively for me at least - is.... turn off the active monitoring option! It's still installed for periodic full scans, but is not any longer hogging resources. The library and launch daemons listings still show Malwarebytes, but RTProtectionDaemon is gone, and Malwarebytes doesn't show up at all among the top processor users of cpu, memory, or energy.
On the browser top bar (using Chrome at least), there is a malwarebytes icon. Click on it and you'll see an option to Stop Real-Time Protection among the drop-down choices. Click to stop, and problem solved. Malwarebytes continues to be on-call for scans, uses no resources (except maybe periodic update daemon launches) and the option to "Start Real-Time Protection" is right there should I want it. Meanwhile, my Mac has not worked so well or had so much headroom in RAM and CPU as now, having begun with trimming storage down and then ID'ing this daemon as the memory hog. Turn it off, problem solved. No uninstall, scripts, or losing the program altogether.
Wow! After finding and reading through this whole thread, I want to thank you, drmikenyc, for what I agree is a super easy solution! It does seem to have solved the problem for me, too - at least so far - and for me at least I found it far preferable to the alternative provided by MalwareBytes' support team.
{I'm still on the free trial for this "upgrade" and when the trial runs out I'm not sure I will even continue said upgrade by buying their license, since their screen now says that I "am not fully protected" and should turn "Real Time Protection" back on! What a pointless conundrum!}
Anyway, thank you very much, drmikenyc!
