When I finish this particular scrape, I will attempt another without using Malwarebytes. I am not worried about losing anything I have scraped as I am very aware of the saving in the Harvester sessions directory; I am far more concerned about having to rescrape the keywords. Most of the scrapes I am doing are slow and use the Harvester proxies. I do not know if it will help you, but here is a screenshot of the current scrape I am conducting. The Google connections have a large amount of errors. The error logs from previous scrapes show that they are socket errors and 500 http errors. This may also be related to Malwarebytes, but I would not venture a guess at this time. While not shown, there are 34 footprints. This is one that I tried to pause- so please understand that I am hesitant to attempt to pause at this time.
Edit add:
Became frustrated enough that I shut the computer down and killed malwarebytes on boot. ScrapeBox now pauses and is scraping faster. There are still many errors, esp. with Google (10 min. runtime, 1180 errors Google. 198 Google API and 125 Bing). When malwarebytes log was checked, Malwarebytes was blocking proxy IP's as suspected and this seems to be why the pause would not function.
Thanks for help.