Malwarebyte releases major fail update (again)

[Sailor Steve]

I just had a slightly different experience. I have the free version, and a few days ago they told me they had a new update available. I thought that was cool, so I downloaded it and rather than an update it was a one-week free trial for the full pay-for version. I didn't mind it and it does seem to do some cool real-time protection stuff. On the other hand there I can't really afford it and I'm certainly not going to pay after they sneak it onto my computer under the guise of a new 'update'. I let it expire and won't be buying it. I will, however, continue to use the free version as it is very good at what it does.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I just had a slightly different experience. I have the free version, and a few days ago they told me they had a new update available. I thought that was cool, so I downloaded it and rather than an update it was a one-week free trial for the full pay-for version. I didn't mind it and it does seem to do some cool real-time protection stuff. On the other hand there I can't really afford it and I'm certainly not going to pay after they sneak it onto my computer under the guise of a new 'update'. I let it expire and won't be buying it. I will, however, continue to use the free version as it is very good at what it does.

Same happen here Steve to me a few weeks back. When it got down to the last 24 hours I got pop up's telling me to upgrade. Pain in the rear for that time but once it went back to the free version the pop up's stopped. Like you I will stick with the free version.

[HW3]

I have a lifetime licence for the pro version. I uninstalled then took a chance and reinstalled it, had to put in my licence number, it updated, and all was well again.

[Lionclaw]

MBAM was using up all my RAM. After restarting it I saw in the task manager that it was slowly using more and more memory.

It was quite a shock to see 99% physical memory being used in the task manager. All 16GB of it.

[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.

[Skybird]

Noel Carboni ticks the same way like me - only that he knows all this stuff many, many times better than I ever will:

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topi...m/#post-162973

[HW3]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01..._patchy_patch/

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