Malwarebytes is the current preferred real-time anti-virus solution of Software Knowledge. We feel it provides superior detection and protection, even when compared against more well-known products from Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro and others. Malwarebytes just came out with a very important upgrade.
If you purchased a key to turn on ‘real-time’ protection, please read the section below. Software Knowledge is an authorized Malwarebytes reseller, and offers 1 year subscriptions to our clients for $21.00US ($4 savings plus other benefits).
To register Malwarebytes, click on Protection tab and click Register (shown below)
A window will come up asking for Product ID and Key. It’s easier to copy and paster rather then entering it manually.
If you currently have a subscription, follow these brief steps to properly configure the new features in this upgrade. First, open the program, go to the Update Tab, and click the Click for Updates button. After the update performs, you may be asked to reboot. Second, click the Scanner Tab to see one of the new features: Perform Flash Scan. This allows you to do a very quick check of any viruses found in your RAM and startup programs. If you think you are infected, perform this scan first. If anything is found, reboot and perform a quick scan.
Software Knowledge recommends making these two changes to the default setup:
Go to the Protection Tab. If you get several annoying balloons pop up in the bottom right of your screen saying ‘Malwarebytes has detected a threat…’ you know it is working. Uncheck the bottom box and they go away.
Go to the Settings Tab. We like to check the top box, and uncheck the last one.
You can see what the program has caught by going to the Quarantine Tab. Feel free to click the Delete All button.
Malwarebytes 1.45 – additional notes about the upgrade:
1. Added new scheduling engine for our customers featuring realtime updating, more finely-grained scheduled scanning/updating, and a streamlined interface.
2. Added new flash scanning option which searches for malicious objects in memory and load point locations.
3. Added compatibility with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for our corporate customers.
4. Added a brand new advanced heuristics detection module named Shuriken that will be integrated into both scanner and protection module.
5. Integrated website blocking options and other customizable policies into the main program interface.
6. Heavily improved command line interface allowing customers to scan and remove automatically and silently.
7. Heavily improved updating module which should solve various updating issues. Also added full proxy support including authentication and integration into the GUI.
8. Fixed a large number of various issues and enhanced overall stability of the scanner and protection module.
9. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a surprisingly effective freeware antimalware tool. It’s a relatively speedy malware remover, with the quick scan taking about 8 minutes even with other high-resource programs running.
10. It supports multiple drive scanning including networked drives, context menu options including a scan-on-demand for individual files, and the FileAssassin option under the More Tools section for removing locked files.
11. Overall, though, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a responsive malware remover that does what it should with a minimum of fuss.
