[Skybird]

I think if you want to be safe for the time being, use not the Pro version (there seem to be more issues with it, as indicated in my second post), but use the free version. The free version has no live protection running in the backgorund, and is only a passive scanner that you manually must launch for a single scan. Until nobody tells me something different I will assume that this version is safe to use for manual scanning once a week or so, causing no stress on the resources when not being called up for scanning.

(Or do they have changed this, too? I base on knowledge of how it was years ago before they abandoned their lifetime license scheme. )

With the free version, you have no live protection, do not forget that. Its just a manually launched HD scanner.

Its a shame, since MBAM is the one security suite that has ran more positive alarms and fewer false alarms than any other software of this kind that I ever used. I considered it to be extremely valuable. It also cooperated nicely with pure AV software (which MBAM is not, its specialised on types of malware that AV easily can miss).

Since I use the Windows rig only for game launching and nothing else, I consider my risk level to be relatively low anyway. For evertyhing else, I use a Linux laptop.