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I learned a ***LONG TIME AGO*** not to be 100% confident in MalwareBytes scan results.

Reason?

A perfectly safe, long-used, hard drive utility was flagged PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) by MalwareBytes -- for no valid reason.

Sure (at the time) I did freak out and let MB disable that utility.
But, after investigating, I re-installed it within a few days, problem-free.
Please note also the NO OTHER A-V PROGRAM -- and I've tried-out a large number of them -- has *ever* flagged the very same utility!

Since then I take a very close look at the 'scan results' MB logs, NEVER AUTOMATICALLY AGREEING to let MB disable anything it finds, do some research on the supposedly offending item, and *almost* never allow MB to disable anything it's found objectionable.
(One exception found a year or two ago turned out really to be a nasty.
That, however, was on someone else's machine I was re-configuring.)

Bottom line:
Unless you're using 'Premium' Malwarebytes, it was free for use.
And you generally "get what you pay for."
(Suggestion:  look at some of the many reviews for this and other A-V software.
You might be more than a little surprised at what you find.)

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So, after reading these posts, I ran MalwareBytes; files as updated to the following releases:
MalwareBytes  4.1.0.56 
Update package 1.0.25448 
component package version 1.0.875

Not the slightest sign of "Quasar Backdoor Trojan" in EPIC for me.
(But that PUP message for my hard drive utility DOES still show up!)

===>> Trainspotters_on_Acid:  "I myself ended up ditching Epic altogether ..."
As above, that's what I'd done with the hard drive utility.
Won't make that mistake again with what's clearly a  'FALSE POSITIVE .'

===>> elnoetic:  " I most certainly trust Malwarebytes more than I do Epic. "
I take the completely opposite point of view for reasons already stated.
===>> "In a search, I can find no reference to Epic and 'Quasar Backdoor Trojan'."

Then let's leave this as a question for alok_epicteam:

Can you offer any reason why this False Positive is being triggered for EPIC?

If you're still interested, Alok...

..."Blocked in other browsers," apparently *IS* being done in the new M-S Chrome/Edge release.

This from security guru Steve Gibson on 2020.01.21
[Excerpts from the 'Security Now' show notes, filename sn/sn-750.txt]

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STEVE: ...this Chromium-based Edge browser abandons Microsoft's own home-rolled Edge HTML rendering engine in favor of Google's open source Chromium.

LEO:  That's an important distinction, by the way, because people are saying, well, just get Chrome.  It isn't Chrome.  It's the Chromium renderer engine; right?

STEVE:  Right, right.  It's the guts.

LEO:  It's the guts.

STEVE:  It's the heart of Chrome.  And a perfect example is that Microsoft has added some additional features to it.

LEO:  Right.  And taken some out, I would bet.

STEVE:  Yes, exactly, yeah.  Well, they de-Google-ized it in order to make it theirs.  I've installed it, and it's quite attractive.  But there are also some nice features, or at least there are some plans to have that.  Under the Settings screen, under Privacy and Services, there's three flavors of tracking prevention:  Basic, Balanced, and Strict.  And so mine is now set to Strict because why not?  There's also supposed to be something a little bit below that on that page.  I've seen screenshots of it, but mine didn't have it.  It's "Block potentially unwanted apps," which sounds like a setting I would like to have.  Maybe it's only available in the canary versions and not yet in the one that you download.  But it sounds like that's going to be coming eventually.

Also there's the ever-popular - oh, thank goodness -
"Block media autoplay," which is not enabled by default. 

You go to edge://settings/content/mediaautoplay to get you to the page that enables you to turn on the blocking to prevent pages from autoplaying any crap that you didn't ask for when the page loads.

So yay for that.

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Incidentally, Mr. Gibson's weekly podcast is available as a ROKU app but you can just as easily read the entire shows on his website, via either .PDF or .txt transcription.

eBay failure started happening for me yesterday 2019.11.02

Dealt successfully will all the *annoying* 'Captcha' crap the past month or more but yesterday that "prompt" completely fails to load any images! 
Re-set, re-loads, refresh -- none of that worked.

Short of DELETING/re-installing EPIC, what other solution is available?

I *love* EPIC but I *need* eBay access!
(And I sure don't want to go back to Google/Chrome...although that does work.)

Same problem with me...

While the option to "save password" came up after a clean re-install of EPIC, it seems HOTMAIL just won't recognize that option.

A minor issue, perhaps, but worth investigating as to "Why not...?"

From an EPIC fan who's often recommended the browser to many others,

M.Riley
St. Paul Minnesota USA

And how would one DO that?

Doing everything I can to "spread the word" about this marvelous browser in hopes that critical mass will be obtained and development sustained!