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Malwarebytes Updated Review
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It is a powerful security solution with advanced protection against malware, ransomware, and other growing threats. It is not similar to the old antivirus solutions. In addition to the powerful antimalware and antispyware features, it includes many tools that offer the best protection for your device. These include anti ransomware, anti-exploit, real time protection, anti-rootkit and malicious site protection.
It is available in a free version which is started manually and scans for and removes malware, and a paid version, which provides additionally features including scheduled scans, real-time protection and flash-memory scanner. It supports many platforms including windows, Mac and Android.

Homepage:

https://www.malwarebytes.com

Product page:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/premium/

Android Google Play version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...ntimalware

Current version and release date:
 
Android: 3.1    Release date:  October 19, 2017
Windows: 3.3.1 / November 2, 2017

System Requirements:

The program supports all windows versions from vista to 10 (both 32 and 64 bit). Windows XP SP3 (32 bit). 250 MB free HDD and 1 Gb free RAM

Download:

https://data-cdn.mbamupdates.com/web/mb3...1.2183.exe

Size:  74.7 Mb

Installation:

After you download the installer, double click on follow simple on-screen instructions till the program is working on your computer. You will enjoy using the free version. The premium features will be available as a free trial of 14 days. After the trial is over, you need a license to continue using the premium features.

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Purchase:

Can be completed from the official website as 1 or 2-year licenses. The price is 39.99$ for 1 year and $59.99 for 2 years

Activation:

You can easily activate your application using the button on the upper toolbar. Submit your license while connected online. You can select my license come with ID. Finally activate. That’s all!

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Full protection or simple disinfection?

Download Malwarebytes for Windows for free and you get 14 days of full real-time protection. After the 14 days are up, Malwarebytes for Windows reverts to a very limited but still free version that will only disinfect your computer after an attack. We recommend the full real-time protection of Malwarebytes for Windows Premium to prevent infection in the first place.

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User Interface:

The user interface is very friendly and easy to use. There is left sided bar with many options (dashboard, scan, quarantine, reports and settings). The main app window shows scan options. The right side show some details and statistics as the real time protection, scan status and protection history

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Features:

Remediation - cleans infected machine
Shields vulnerable systems and software from new and unknown (zero-day) exploits
Detects malware automatically, before it can infect.
Shields vulnerable systems and software from exploit attacks
Prevents access to and from known malicious webpages.
Stops ransomware attacks before your data is held hostage.
Detects and removes malware and advanced threats
Removes rootkits and repairs the files they damage.
Scans faster, scans smarter
Multilangauge: Languages Available
Bulgarian, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.
Four layers of malware-crushing tech.
Smarter detection.
Specialized ransomware protection.
Available as free and paid versions

What are the new features in the current version:

Performance/protective capability

Improved remediation in Chrome browser
Numerous enhanced protection techniques and remediation capabilities

Usability

Improved notification design for better readability
Added new quick tour module in Free and Trial versions
Added informational modules to Scan Progress page in Free and Trial versions
Improved update process to allow more dynamic updating of user interface components
Other minor user interface improvements

Stability/issues fixed

Fixed issue where the Malwarebytes tray application showed in ALT+Tab list
Improved Web Protection compatibility with third-party applications
Improved driver management
Fixed issue where certain notifications would not display properly after waking from sleep
Fixed issue on XP where Chameleon files were not fully uninstalled
Fixed a crash related to rootkit scanning
Addressed other miscellaneous user interface improvements and defects

You can see the whole release history here:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/support/releasehistory/

What it does for you:

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Scan:

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There are three types available so that you choose the one you will use; threat scan, custom scan and hyper Scan.

Threat scan: it will not scan every file on your computer but will scan the locations which most commonly sites of malware attack. These include memory objects, startup objects, registry objects, file system objects and heuristic analysis

Custom scan: allows you to scan according to specifications which you define at the time of the scan.

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Hyper Scan: limited to detection of immediate threats. The scanned areas include startup and memory

Scan Progress:
 
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Scan Schedule:

This tab allows users of the Premium and Premium Trial versions to add, edit and remove scheduled scans to be executed by Malwarebytes. This feature is not available to users of the Free version. Free users are provided with a single monthly scheduled scan. With your scheduled task you can specify advanced scan options as quarantine threats automatically, restart your computer, scan for rootkits and scan within archives

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Scan result and summary:

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Quarantine:

After doing scans whether on-demand or real-time, some files, registry keys or apps are categorized as threats and removed from the hard disk location to the quarantine. They will be isolated and modified to protect your computer from any threat. The quarantined items are arranged as a table with many options to help you select the appropriate action. You can either restore or delete the files according to your information about the threat. If you don’t select any action, the files will be located in the quarantine
In this way, if some items that are not malicious are quarantined, no problem you can easily restore these files.

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Reports:

This pane displays a list of scans and real-time protection detections. The list shows protection events in the form of scan report or detections made by real-time protection. For example, website blocked or threat detected and so on. You can click on the button view report to see the details of the event you want. Selected reports may be viewed on screen, or exported to a text file for later viewing. You can see many information about any event; for example scan type, result, processes, modules, registry keys, scan time, threats detected and so on

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Settings:

The Settings screen show many tabs with many options available in each tab.
 Settings were grouped by the functions they control. This makes it easy to access and maintain a clean user interface. Simply select any tab to check the options available. The tabs present include the following:

Application Settings: this includes updates, notifications, language, impact of scans on system, context menu, event log data and proxy server.

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Protection Settings: this includes options specific for protection during scans and real-Time Protection which is available for premium and premium trial users.
Real time protection is available for the premium and premium trial users. It includes four different types of real-time protection; Web Protection, Exploit Protection, Malware Protection and Ransomware Protection. The exploit protection includes the option to manage protected apps and many advanced settings. The premium and premium trial users have the option to add protection for other applications, and edit specifications for any defined shield
Start up options are available for premium users and include app start with your system, delay real time protection when the program start, and enable self protection mode.
Other options include threat protection, automatic quarantine detected objects and check for updates

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Scan Schedule: manage when and how scheduled scans run on your system. This setting is functional only for premium and premium trial users.

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Exclusions: manage the list of items which will be excluded from detection as malware. In addition, the websites which are categorized as malicious but specifically approved by the user.

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My Account: Information about your subscription.

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About:

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Pros:

Protection against a wide variety of threats
Real time protection
Free version available with on demand scan
Compatible with all antivirus software
Protection against ransomware and zero-day threats
Fast scan
And many more

Cons: None

Conclusion:

It is a next-gen security program that protects you from the most advanced threats including zer-day attacks making antivirus obsolete. Malwarebytes protects you against a wide variety of threat and malicious websites, in addition to the latest ransomware, including BadRabbit
 
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#2
Nice detailed review.
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#3
Good review , thank you.
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#4
very detailed as always thank so much Heart Heart
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#5
Thanks for this review Tarek Smile
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#6
Thanks for review tarekma7
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#7
I been a very happy Malwarebyte user for years and I had lifetime license back in the day it was version 2.x which is very light and effective. Ever since they release version 3.x I found it very buggy and it consume a lot of my CPU memory and had since uninstalled it. Might as well give it a second chance but in fact since then my ladtop did not had any antivirus software installed (well i had windscribe and its adblock if you would consider it security software) and (touch wood) I had no problem at all so far. The best security protection imo is awareness - do not install untrusted software or visit random site and you should be fine.

sorry for going a bit off topic tho.
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#8
Thank you Tarek.
Also a long time user and holder of a license for life, I never had the problem of Cool.
It is true that I do not plan analyzes; I only perform manual scans... probably the reason.
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#9
It's just grandiose, thanks Tarek! ;)
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#10
Thanks for review tarekma7
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