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[patio]

The premium ver. of MBAM has a real-time scanner that runs in the background,,,
I suspect this is what is causing the hiccups.
Both good apps...because they do different things.
I'd suggest disabling MBAM to run your Trend scans...and vice-versa and all should be good.
That is if you finally got Trend to install proper.

Either way the Trend tech shoulda known this IMHO.

[tkmops]

Thanks everyone for all your help. I've finally(after 5 weeks) got things working normally.

Yeah, it seems that Trend and Mal-Ware Bytes don't play nice together.

I'm keeping Mal-Ware Bytes running as my main anti-virus program, disabling it and running Trend once a week. Then I probably won't be renewing Trend this year.

I just hope that all the stuff I did during the past 5 weeks didn't screw things up...all the programs that I use daily are working fine...after about a month or so, I'll have used 90% of programs. If everything is still working, I should be good. Again, thanks everyone for your help!!!

[patio]

Doing your due diligence with your protection apps won't or shouldn't screw up any of your apps so you should be good to go...
Good to hear you are fixed up and thanx for keeping us posted.

[patio]

BTW...Welcome Aboard !.