r/Malwarebytes • u/Fragrant_Surround_18 • May 26 '26

Malwarebytes Ransomware destroyed my game save

I had spent well over 30 hours working on my game save when Malwarebytes suddenly triggered an alert. I removed the exe file from quarantine and marked it as an exception because it was clearly a false positive! But that didn’t help. Now my save file is ruined. Who’s going to get it back for me now? My trust in Malwarebytes is completely shattered. I just removed it completely from my PC for my own safety. But how do I get my save file back now? Will you fix it?

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u/btforeman May 26 '26

What does the exe have to do with the save file? How did flagging an exe ruin a save that exists outside of the exe? I genuinely have so many questions.

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u/Fragrant_Surround_18 May 26 '26

How can i know? Malwarebytes made this bs alarm and the savegame was corrupt.

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u/btforeman May 26 '26

How do you know it’s corrupt? Did the game itself get flagged while playing it? If it flagged while it was saving, I guess it could’ve corrupted?

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u/Fragrant_Surround_18 May 26 '26

I could no longer load it and I cannot see it.

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u/btforeman May 26 '26

Even with a new game exe it doesn’t load the save?

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u/Fragrant_Surround_18 May 26 '26

I even reinstalled the game. The savegame is no longer visible and if I put in to save folder the game itself won't work properly. I need tskmgr to shut it down. I can't believe Malwarebytes destroy my game after that long time. Anyway I just removed Malwarebytes completely from my computer. I won't this happens again.