Microsoft recently released the classic second Tuesday of the month patch, an update that hit Windows 10 and Windows 11 and to no one’s surprise makes troublealthough at the moment they only seem to affect the other OS as there have been no reported cases of the same error on Windows 10.

I put you in a situation. When you install this update, Windows 11 causes a bug that causes Malwarebytes’ security solution to identify Google Chrome as malware, and therefore continue to block it. The browser will be listed in the task manager, but we won’t see anything on the screen.

Is there a solution to this problem? Yes, but it’s more of a “fix”, in quotes, because for those who used Malwarebytes and opted for the paid option, it doesn’t actually fix anything because they have no choice but to uninstall the antivirus solution listed. It is the only one that really works in all cases.

A Malwarebytes employee confirmed that they are investigating the issue and provided other possible solutions that seem to work in certain cases. These go through configuring Google Chrome as the default browser, deactivating the Google Chrome application protection box in the protected applications section, which we will get to along the route “Settings > Security > Exploit protection > Protected applications”.

Some users say that outright disabling the exploit protection works, but this generally gives up an important security feature of Malwarebytes, so it’s best to limit it to Google Chrome. Obviously you can too temporarily change browser weather the storm until Microsoft fixes this issue.

Microsoft hasn’t said when it plans to fix the bug, but we imagine that a solution should come soon and that it will do so in the form of a patch. If the basic configuration solutions don’t work for you, I’d recommend temporarily resorting to another browser, because from everything we’ve seen, it’s the fastest and easiest option, and we can also consider it the “least bad”.

It goes without saying that this issue does nothing but show that Microsoft still hasn’t settled the bill it has with Windows 11 updates, because they still come with major issues that eventually They significantly affect the user experience.