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hondro

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Anyone know anything about this? Is it good, decent, crap? My Kaspersky free trial ran out and I'm short on money so I'm looking for a good free replacement until i have some more $.

thanks.
 
Malwarebytes is not a virus program, its a malware/adware program. If you want a virus program that is free use either AVG, Avira or Avast. Malwarebytes is really good at removing malware but it doesn't replace a Virus removal program.
 
ok thanks, but what's the best out of avg, avira, and avast. I know avg has holes, not sure about the other ones. Also if I get one of these will they remove malware as well as viruses?
 
I use AVG and I trust it better than anything else i've used. You can't use a virus program for a malware scanner either. It will detect some but not all malicious programs. There isn't one scanner for everything. And not each malware scanner scans for the same thing. Thats why when Malwarebytes fails to catch something, I use Superantispyware as well.
 
Thanks for the reply, I thought antivirus programs like Kaspersky and McAfee scanned for everything, I didn't know that you needed seperate programs to scan for seperate things. I'll give the programs you listed a shot.

The reason I said avg has holes in it is because I've actually seen a virus that installed avg and change the default directory avg is downloaded to so other antivirus programs couldn't be installed (Kaspersky requires you get rid of other av programs before installing) and you couldn't find avg to uninstall it. Of course if you ran avg it couldn't find the virus, so after going into the registry and manually deleting all the avg files we could install kaspersky and the virus was found after a scan.

It's probably like that with all free av programs though, I guess it's to be expected that free programs don't work as well as ones you have to pay for.
 
You can't have more than one virus program installed at the same time, it causes confusion and problems. You can however have one installed and use an online scanner. When you get infected, depending on the infection, it will render your virus and malware scanners useless until you kill the process that is disabling those scanners. Sometimes the only way of cleaning that infection is to put the hard drive into another system and do a virus/malware scan on it and it should find the offending file and delete it, then you can put the drive back in the original system and the virus and malware scanners will work again.
 
Pc tools security is great but makes your computer run slow...i run avg normal and once a week run pc tools
 
johnb35 said:
I use AVG and I trust it better than anything else i've used. You can't use a virus program for a malware scanner either. It will detect some but not all malicious programs. There isn't one scanner for everything. And not each malware scanner scans for the same thing. Thats why when Malwarebytes fails to catch something, I use Superantispyware as well.
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Really? Do you use AVG free? I find that if anything it's the most unreliable.
 
Try Avast. Its really good. I have been using this for almost six months and no issues at all. If it is for your personal PC, you can get a key from the avast website and you can use that free for a year and then renew it again.
 
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