If you ask computer users about the anti-spyware software that they have installed to protect their system they will most likely name Spybot Search and Destroy or Ad-Aware. Those are the most commonly used anti-spyware programs. Some would probably name Windows Defender from Microsoft or Spyware Terminator or some commercial products.
Malewarebytes Anti-Malware is a software currently in Beta that has an easy to use interface. Users can either quick scan their computer which scans only the hard drive of the operating system and Registry or fully scan their system with the choice of selecting the hard drives that should be scanned.
The quick scan finished on my main Windows XP partition in under 3 minutes while the full scan of all of my hard drives took completed in roughly 30 minutes. Neither scan did find any malware on my computer and I personally find it hard to judge the effectiveness of Anti-Malware.
The main disadvantage of Anti-Malware is in my opinion the non-existent realtime protection which is only available in the Pro version. This is a major drawback and makes the product inferior to other free anti-spyware applications.
It still seems to be pretty useful if you want to scan a system quickly considering that it uses less resources during the scan. CPU in the task manager for instance never went up above 20% while Spybot for instance was always using 65%+.
The beta version of Malewarebytes Anti-Malware is only available in the forums of the homepage with new versions being released every 2-3 days.
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On par with the big boys I’d say…
I use this programs quite often at work on customers’ computers that have been infected with rogue antivirus/antispyware software (the kind that Smitfraud often uses; winantispyware and the like). It removes several varients that typical antispyware software doesn’t or can’t get rid of. It’s good for a clean-up. I don’t think the product is positioned as anything but an on-demand scanner at this point and quite frankly I think it’s better for it. It does what it needs to do very well.
use this programs quite often at work on customers’ computers that have been infected with rogue antivirus/antispyware software (the kind that Smitfraud often uses; winantispyware and the like). It removes several varients that typical antispyware software doesn’t or can’t get rid of. It’s good for a clean-up. I don’t think the product is positioned as anything but an on-demand scanner at this point and quite frankly I think it’s better for it. It does what it needs to do very well.
My Trend Micro expired and I got infected and stubbornly did not redo my trend micro. I ended up with some garbage virus’s that fed porn and contant popups even with IE7 installed and also ended up with another malware known as Antivirus 2009.
I downloaded and purchased PCTools and it did not fix the problem.
I downloaded malwarebytes Anti-Malware and it cleaned up my computer.
So for now, I am giving it two thumbs up.
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Somehow “MS Antivirus 2008″ Virus managed to get on my computer.
Downloaded and installed Spybot-search-and-distroy, what a lumbering hulk of a program this has turned into! slowed my computer to a crawl, and was unable to remove the infection, tried to use it for an hour, gave up, and uninstalled it.
few forum searches later…..
Installed “Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware”
Fast download
Fast (and small) install
Very quick scan of the harddrive
*ZAP* Virus gone
At first i didn’t believe it had removed it, as the program had done it so quickly!
Rebooted…
All the annoying popups had gone, and no trace of virus on my system.
happy chap :-)
this is genius
Got a Fake Microsoft Security Alert telling me I was infected with Trojans( The artwork just didn’t look right to be genuine). It linked me to a web page to dowload ‘PC Antispy’. Needless to say I didn’t download. Fake Alert would Pop-up every 10 minutes whilst I was connected to the internet. Used task manager to identify process as ‘zuzunane.exe’. Tried Spybot search and Destroy, dowloaded (and paid for) Spyware Doctor, the programs would identify trojans and apparently eradicate them but the Fake alerts would continue. A Forum site ‘geeks to go’ gave rrecommended Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, so I downloaded, installed and ran (Must admit I didn’t hold out much hope). It identified ‘Trojan FakeAlert.H’ and deleted it on Computer re-boot. Connected to internet and no longer was bombarded by the fake alert. Great result so will recommend
we had windows virus 2008 pop ups could not remove using spyhunter downloaded malwarebytes and cleaned up the problem also it was free id give it a thumbs up
A friend of mine asked me to fix his computer it was infected with alot of trojans and Malware the Internet Explorer was hijacked to, I used Hijackthis and others even ComboFix to fix his computer, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware was the only program that could fix his computer. 10 out 10
my computer gave a fake security warning which my -paid for- security system was unable to remove. A trojan was identified but unable to be quarantined. ‘Malwarebytes’ was recommended by a security forum. I downloaded and ran a quick scan and problem solved very quickly. Would highly recommend.
As luck (??) would have it my son got similar (but not the same) fake security alerts on his computer, telling him he was infected with trojans: my own experience told me immediately that they were fake alerts trying to get him to download and pay for PC Antispy. Downloaded and ran Malwarebytes: solved the problem in a trice. A must have.!!
I have bad popus from adtrg.com and i ran the malwarebytes 3 times and it gets rid of it but after being online it starts up again with firefox.
You need some more tools to help you get rid of that junk. Lately, many of these common malware infections have mutated in an effort to prevent programs like MBAM from getting rid of them or even installing; Majorgeeks.com & Filehippo.com both have many legitimate programs in their antispyware/antimalware catagories that you may be able to put to use.
I’ve been testing this software for a couple of months now and I wouldn’t say that it is much better than any other program that it tries to be like. I guess it is nice to have as just another Anti-Malware Scanner to add to the mix, but I wouldn’t pay for the commercial version as the “added features” just aren’t worthy of the price they try to charge.