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Nope Corrine, you read my mind. 
Under normal circumstances it's a waste of time to scan for rootkits. Although it doesn't hurt to check once in a while, maybe every month or so.
Or when you are experiencing strange behavior, but it's obvious you will want to use the full potential in such a case.

You can time it merely by selecting rootkit scan and doing a scan now. 

I always scan with rootkits checked. It takes 5.42 min
Unchecked 1.42 min.
For me 4 mins is not important.

Time to get with the times and migrate to SSDs! I've had Scan for Rootkits enabled for a long time and with an SSD scanning for rootkits takes a couple seconds. And entire threat scan, as seen in the log summary below, took just 2 minutes and 4 seconds.

-Scan Summary-
Scan Type: Threat Scan
Scan Initiated By: Manual
Result: Completed
Objects Scanned: 311885
Threats Detected: 0
Threats Quarantined: 0
Time Elapsed: 2 min, 4 sec

-Scan Options-
Memory: Enabled
Startup: Enabled
Filesystem: Enabled
Archives: Enabled
Rootkits: Enabled
Heuristics: Enabled
PUP: Warn
PUM: Warn

-Scan Details-
Process: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Module: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Key: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Value: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Data: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Data Stream: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Folder: 0
(No malicious items detected)

File: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Physical Sector: 0
(No malicious items detected)

WMI: 0
(No malicious items detected)


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Hello..! Can you do the following for me:

• If you already have Malwarebytes installed then open Malwarebytes and click on the Scan button. It will automatically check for updates and run a Threat Scan.[/*]
  
• If you don't have Malwarebytes installed yet please download it from here and install it.[/*]
  
• Once installed then open Malwarebytes and select Scan and let it run.[/*]
  
• Once the scan is completed make sure you have it quarantine any detections it finds.[/*]
  
• If no detections were found click on the Save results drop-down, then the Export to TXT  button, and save the file as a Text file to your desktop or other location you can find and attach that log on your next reply.[/*]
  
• If there were detections then once the quarantine has completed click on the View report button, Then click the Export drop-down, then the Export to TXT  button, and save the file as a Text file to your desktop or other location you can find and attach that log on your next reply.[/*]
  
• If the computer restarted to quarantine you can access the logs from the Detection History, then the History tab. Highlight the most recent scan and double-click to open it. Then click the Export drop-down, then the Export to TXT  button, and save the file as a Text file to your desktop or other location you can find and attach that log on your next reply.[/*]
  
• If Malwarebytes won't run then please skip to the next step and let me know in your next reply that the scanner would not run.[/*]
  

More information is needed - diaries, photos .. so I can send them for correction of support ..!

• Download the Malwarebytes Support Tool
  
• In your Downloads folder, open the mb-support-x.x.x.xxx.exe file
• In the User Account Control pop-up window, click Yes to continue the installation
• Run the MBST Support Tool
• In the left navigation pane of the Malwarebytes Support Tool, click Advanced
• In the Advanced Options, click Gather Logs. A status diagram displays the tool is Getting logs from your machine
• A zip file named mbst-grab-results.zip will be saved to your desktop, please upload that file on your next reply

Thanks

darksurfer, I logged in and had a look at the Malwarebytes forum yesterday. After looking through the first three pages and not seeing anything, I opted to search "network failure popup". I got no hits on that. It appears that you are quite alone in getting that error. Since that seems to be the case, I suspect it is some setting on your computer and not the malwarebytes program. Unfortunately, I have no idea where to tell you to look in networks.

Try this: open Malwarebytes and click on Settings (gear icon). Stay on the general Tab and scroll to the bottom. If you have a button that says Restore default Settings, click on it. Since my versions are all paid, I'm not sure if you have available all the settings that I do.

You didn't by any chance install a browser addon called Browser Guard? If you aren't sure, open all the browsers you use and disable it. Perhaps that is causing a problem.