

When this is the case, turn this setting on.

If the setting is toggled off, a notification will display in the lower right corner of the screen for each detection, and you must specify to ignore the detection once, ignore always (added to Exclusions) or quarantine. Malwarebytes Premium and Malwarebytes Trial users can specify if detections are automatically quarantined when detected. You can set the increment to minutes, hours, and days. You can adjust the interval between every 15 minutes and 14 days. Malwarebytes Premium and Malwarebytes Trial users have the option to automatically check for protection updates and to set the interval when the checks occur. Update threat intelligence (Premium only) You can scroll through the Security settings to see several configurable items. To view this screen, click the gear icon in the top-right corner of the Dashboard, then click the Security tab. If the program reverts to the Free version, Premium dependent features will disable. Some of these features are only available to Malwarebytes Premium and Trial users.

This section allows you to configure how the program protects your Windows device. The Security settings is a tab on the Settings screen in Malwarebytes for Windows.
