I think I am done using MBAM

This new UI looks like the exact malware that clients hire me to remove. Not only is it kind of embarrassing to use, but it misleads users that stuff that looks like this is safe to use. Naturally that is rarely the case.

 

Although, it DOES get results.

cleaned my daughters pc with it just yesterday and was pretty much the only thing that found the over 500 pieces of malware on the computer.

what would you replace it with? I love trying other things that i havent yet.

My personal pc is only protected by MSE, Spybot, and spywareblaster.

but, of course, i also pay attention to what i download and where i go

 

From what I've read on another forum, the new version of MBAM should have been a longer time in beta, released way too soon.

That's why I will wait for at least 6 months or more before trying out the new version. Have saved an *old* 1.75 version of MBAM on my PC and still using the very same version. Still working fine in updating etc.

Yep, I've seen a few pics of the new version and looks not too attractive to me.

 

i love the new ui that malwarebytes uses i use the 2.0 and i personaly like it if you leave it get into hitman pro i use both and also emsisoft and superantispyware i am a security nut i have like 8 layers of chrome security

 

adwcleaner did a much more thorough job for me today.

 

Agree about the GUI, Adry. Though can't compare AdwCleaner to MBAM. MBAM cleans up a lot of serious crap that AdwCleaner will not even detect.

Cheers..

 

Agreed. The new UI is awful. I'm taking it for a test drive now.

 

Just posting you are done using MBAM is pretty pointless.
Could you post reasons why?
Maybe MBAM will read and improve.

 

Its only pointless if you didn't read what I said...

 

It runs well enough.

 

My bad there, I just did not consider that you put the UI over the functionality. You certainly have a valid point. Maybe just stick to an older version and update the definitions?

 

Thats not a bad idea. It just rubbed me the wrong way yesterday when a client was watching my every move and all of a sudden I installed something that looked just like the stuff he wanted removed, LOL.

It gives the wrong impression and the UI designers really should have thought about it more carefully.

 

I tell them I charge more if they want to look over my shoulder... :-D

 

I tell them to get a cup of coffee, if that don't work get up in a hurry saying I gotta PEE!

 

Nah he was pretty happy with me but my face got a little red when I launched mbam.

 

Funny thing is, adwcleaner removed the worst baddies of the bunch that mbam missed.

 

Try JRT by thisisu. Excellent as well. Often cleans stuff missed by AdwCleaner. Both are often used in conjunction, as one catches stuff the other misses.

Cheers..

 

That may be the case, but that GUI... yuck.

 

ive often said, if you use just 2 your doing it wrong

i clean with no less than 3 to 5 malware progs, plus at least 2 if not more virus ones.

If i were paid to do this, id probably use more and have paid subs.

 

MBAM releases Public Beta v 2.0.2 April 21, 2014
https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=147144

A long list of fixes.

 

I use whats needed, and don't go overkill unless I have to.

I try to save them money because I am doing it hourly, not by the job. Keeps them happy and referring me to others

 

Yeah i can see that. I spent over 5 hrs at my daughters pc sooo yeah. lol

 

Skipped my mind altogether!
Congratulations, Adry! This is a new venture you started and I see you have clients. Kudos man.:clap
Did your web site help? I'm thinking your reputation precedes you, what with your knowledge and all.

Cheers

 

Website hasn't helped a bit, LOL. It has all been reputation and word of mouth so far.

That said, its moving to a weekend business starting this week. I picked up a software development position with a local company :-D

 

Congrats on the new job I hope it works out for you :-D

+1 to hating the new MBAM GUI
FWIW I usually run MBAM in safe mode first then Spybot S&D and this seems to clear the majority of problems :cool

 

Good news on the new appointment. Glad you are back in the field you wanted to be in. So the resume helped.

Cheers..

 

Yeah, resume helped, as well as portfolio. This is the first time that someone actually looked at it instead of throwing my resume in the trash.

 

Great!! Congrats Adry!

 

Big time!

 

Agree 100% on the GUI . . . been using it for a few weeks now and despise it.

Congrats on the job, Adrynalyne.

 

Good idea, Oma. I still have the 1.75 installer which is much smaller than 2.xx.

Compared to the previous Pro version on Windows XP, it seems that ver. 2.0.1 Pro is using about 20+MB less memory than the older version.
I'm referring to the active protection.

I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed any memory or performance differences?

 

It seems that you are using the paid version of MBAM? I'm just using the free 1.75 version and from what I read somewhere some time ago that the old version will still work for 1 year after MBAM released their paid for version 2. Hopefully by that time all kinks will have been ironed out. Wilders Security has a huge thread about MBAM's new version which I read in its entirety some time ago. That's why I decided to wait a while.

 

Sorry, that isn't quite right.

These numbers are for Malwarebytes Anti-Malware PRO with Real Time Protection activated.

What I found was that ver. 1.75 on Windows XP uses more memory than either ver. 1.75 or ver. 2.0.1 on my Windows 7 machine.

For version 1.75 on Windows XP Home sp3 32 bit:
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mbamservice.exe 117,080K
mbamgui.exe 10,476K
mbamscheduler.exe 5,524K

For version 1.75 on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit:
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mbamservice.exe 52,944K
mbamgui.exe 2,556K
mbamscheduler.exe 1,872K

For version 2.0.1 on Windows 7
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There were (2) processes of about 55K and 25K each, so about 80,000K total.
I think the one missing was mbamscheduler.exe

After uninstalling 2.0.1, there was a driver still being loaded - don't remember the name.