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Is Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware any good?

 
 
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      11-01-2009
To be honest I do not run any antimalware scanners myself, but I seen first hand the effectivenes of MBAM (and also SuperAntiSpyware - SAS which was the main flavour before MBAM) in the malware forums and both are great tools to have around. The only thing I do not like about MBAM is that in the paid version they have an IP blocker which has resulted in a few IP's being registrered"Bad" when they are not. I agree that MBAM does have its false positives but I would'nt class it as "many" which makes it sound a regular occurrance, I feel no scanner is not prone to the odd false positive. Usually Bruce is good at adding items to the whitelist but I cannot say if the software you mentioned have been whitelisted or not.

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users should be aware that Malwarebytes is not an anti-virus scanner
%100 spot on, many people forget this and rely on it to run it as their main security application, it should be complimented by a good antivirus as you mentioned
 
 
 
 
 
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      11-02-2009
An old M8 said to me a long time ago
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Theres only one %100 safe way to use a computer ... thats off line and don't insert anything
True but not very practical.
 
 
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      12-27-2011
I use Malware Bytes,AVG and Spybot and they work together very good.I think Malware Bytes is a Very Good anti-malware program,but,its detection rates are not as good as Spybot's.But it is still a good anti-malware program.You should be careful because remember Malware Bytes is an ANTI-MALWARE program not an ANTI-VIRUS program so if you are using Malware Bytes you should also have an Anti-Virus installed.
 
 
 
 
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