I hadn't thought of that! Good point.

In reply to a post by longedge:

I have Malwarebytes Premium installed and running alongside Windows Defender. MBAM does a daily scan at the end of which I get a pop up telling me the scan is finished, that's the only time I'm aware of it. I do a weekly full scan manually with Defender. The two get along very well together.

Similarly here - the Premium version being provided free via my bank. I have the daily scan set to 2pm or later wakeup if off/sleep/hibernating at that time.

It does cause the cooling fan to run, that's all apart from the "All clear, finish" popup that you get.

My point was that the two, whether the free version or the full version of Malwarebytes happily co-exist with Windows Defender.

It so happens that my copy of the premium version of Malwarebytes came free from Bits du Jour some years ago but that is irrelevant really.

In reply to a post by Jack_Hackett:

In reply to a post by longedge:

I have Malwarebytes Premium installed and running alongside Windows Defender. together.

He asked for free internet security Malwarebytes premium is advertised at £29.99 for one device and £69.99 for more than one.

Edit to add second price.

Some banks provide Malwarebytes premium to their customers free of charge.

In reply to a post by Michael_Chare:

Some banks provide Malwarebytes premium to their customers free of charge.

Out of interest does anyone know what banks?

NatWest apparently did/do…. though the link is from a couple of years ago.

Hang on, just checked, it is still available to their customers.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

NatWest apparently did/do…. though the link is from a couple of years ago.

Hang on, just checked, it is still available to their customers.

Thank you

On startup, my laptop would use a lot of cpu while (MBAM or MBAN) did its thing so I disabled it.

(I don't get those two acronyms. MBAM appears to be a legacy Windows product and MBAN a Master of Business Analytics).

Free Malwarebytes does nothing on startup or at any other time unless you want it to, and the suggestion recently to uninstall it after use makes sense to me.

For the Premium version to run a scan on startup is down to your settings. Mine is set to run at a time I expect the machine to be on, 2pm unless the machine is sleeping or hibernating, as I said.

It's very rare for it not to run at some time then or later, so rare I don't remember what happens next morning on startup if it hasn't. When it is running all I really notice is the fan starts running then cuts out after. It's on an HP laptop with Win 11.

Edited by pluralist (Sun 18-Sep-22 11:56:57)

I may have caused some some confusion with a reference to MBAM, sorry, the main executable is mbam.exe.