I selected all image files (just over 4,000) in a favorites folder and opened the metadata window to add 5-star ratings to them all. When I hit the Apply button, the entire program just disappeared, including from my Taskbar. I redownloaded 13.18 (last stable build), reloaded my config file and tried again. Exact same result: the whole program disappeared from my computer.
Interestingly enough, Malwarebytes is detecting the executable as ransomware and pulling it into quarantine. But only when I try applying a rating change to several files at a time. One by one editing works fine. But as soon as I grab a few hundred, it vanishes into quarantine.
So it sounds like it's not crashing, it's being killed by your antivirus?
You'd need to ask Malwarebytes why it's doing that. Presumably it sees changes to a lot of files at once and assumes it's malware doing it. (Virus checkers are usually very stupid and lazy and won't actually check what the change is.)
Adding Opus to its whitelist (assuming it has one) is probably all you need to do.
Yes, I seem to be able to add changes to just under 50 files and fly under the radar. But as soon as I select more than 50, it kills it. I’ll add it to the white list and hope that solves it. Thanks for your speedy reply!
Interesting. I guess it is some sort of heuristic against ransomware. Too many files are accessed in a very short period of time.
Unfortunately, file managers are indistinguishable from malware
By the way, is Malwarebytes any better than the default Windows 10/11 antivirus?
As far as I can tell, almost anything is better than whatever M$ is doing these days. But from what I’ve read above, there’s probably not much difference between the two. Which is a shame, because Malwarebytes actually used to have a solid reputation before.
Just to follow up: adding the DOpus folder (not just the executable) to the Malwarebytes whitelist was the ticket (thank you again, Jon!). But it requires making sure you’ve deleted all traces of notifications from the Quarantined list AND rebooting to make it take effect–if you miss any of those steps, it will trigger quarantine again regardless of the program being whitelisted.
Personally, I would change antivirus if it was spontaneously killing a program without even telling me what happened or why, just because it touched 50 files.
Something that does that to you system is worse than most viruses, and could still affect other programs and cause data loss even if you've whitelisted the ones it has killed previously.
That is strange: I did not had to go through all that trouble when I did the same.
FWIW, it’s the same kind of behaviour that seemed to trigger that action from MalwareBytes. I was executing a script that was modifying lots of files one after the other, which made it report Opus to be ransomware.
