I'm struggling to wrap my head around how these very oddly specific circumstances are only happening to me, so I thought it made sense to share my experience to Reddit and maybe hopefully hear back from anyone who has experienced something like this for themselves. Though I've tried to research other instances of MWB interfering with other VPNs and I'm not finding anything. I know they offer their own VPN now, so it makes this circumstance very shady. Which is just bizarre to me, MWB's only interference with Surfshark as far as I can tell, is forcing the VPN to work when I ask it not to?īut despite grilling Nord for their failure to offer anything besides a shoulder shrug, I can't fault them now after witnessing two VPN services experience interference specifically from Malwarebytes. After maybe half an hour of investigation, we unfortunately discovered that, after turning off MWB web protection, the bypassing worked.

Today I spoke to Surfshark about their whitelister, and how choosing apps to bypass VPN doesn't actually bypass the VPN. They left me with an ultimatum, Nord or MWB. VPNs create an encrypted tunnel for your web.

So last night I contacted NordVPN after it was discovered that their Wireguard connection is, in fact, failing after 10-20 minutes due to Malwarebytes being active. This is especially true for VPNs, as using one almost invariably slows your uploads and downloads and increases the latency of your internet connection.

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