Malwarebytes false positive

I’m unable to use the OfficeTab add-in with Microsoft Office – after installation, OfficeTab keeps locking up Office and I’m forced to remove it. I can’t find any obvious solution online – do you know what’s going on? JAKE PROSSER

Cat Ellis replies: Jake was running the Premium version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, which is known to falsely flag OfficeTab as a threat. Sadly, despite numerous reports to the Malwarebytes forums, a permanent fix hasn’t (yet) been forthcoming. If you’re happy to reduce your Office security level slightly, you can tweak Malwarebytes to ignore the kind of specific threat that it mistakenly thinks OfficeTab represents: open Malwarebytes and click Settings > Protection tab. Click ‘Advanced Settings’ under Exploit Protection, then select the Advanced Memory Protection tab and untick both ‘CALL ROP Gadget detection’ boxes under MS Office. Click ‘Apply’ and you should find Office now loads and OfficeTab works correctly.

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