

It may have been corrupted or infected and deactivated by malware. There could be many reasons why Malwarebytes is not opening. Sometimes, after installing Malwarebytes, when you attempt to launch it by clicking its shortcut icon on the desktop or its tray icon, you can see its process running in Task Manager, but Malwarebytes neither starts nor shows its main window with a Graphical user interface.

You should be using Premium for real-time proteciton. It comes in two versions: Free and Premium with dark theme support. Malwarebytes protect against malware, viruses, trojans, and other threats. Malwarebytes once an anti-malware product that runs with antivirus is now a full-fledged security application.

If you’ve installed Malwarebytes and found it’s not opening when you try to on Windows 11, or Windows 10, here is what you need to do to fix the issue and make it work again.
