The suite maintains the safety and stability of the work of an operating system. It runs a scan of selected drives or the entire system in the application with built-in algorithms to identify and contain malware, Trojans and similar threats. It supports database updates.
Malwarebytes Anti-malware is intended to protect your system from several types of threats, particularly those that your main antivirus software might miss. Besides virus signatures, the tool uses artificial-intelligence technologies to identify suspicious behaviors, which allows it to detect viruses even before they are included in any database. Another advantage of using smart virus detection is that the application can work quite effectively in the event the database has not been updated.
The program has two main scan modes: one of them is quicker and shallow, while the other takes considerably more time but does a more thorough job. Besides, it can also offer real-time protection, although it is not available if you are using the free version. Besides, it includes a memory protection module, which prevents the use of your RAM by any potentially dangerous process. Another feature available is File Assassin, which can come in handy to delete those files Windows has blocked. In addition, it can also help you have a safer browsing experience by deterring web threats. Finally, apart from on-demand scans, you can also schedule checkups to happen at a specified frequency.
In general, Malwarebytes Anti-malware is ranked among the most effective tools of its type. It has the advantage of being compatible with other AV applications, so it can run along with them with no problem. This product has two editions, one of them is free; yet, it has multiple limitations. This means that, if you want to enjoy such features as real-time and heuristic protection and faster scans, you should buy its Pro edition.
v3.1 [May 7, 2017]
- Multiple enhancements result in reduction of memory usage.
- Faster load time and responsiveness of third-party applications.
- Improved performance of Web Protection.
- Faster Malwarebytes 3 program startup time and responsiveness of user interface.
- New detection and protection layer with machine learning based anomaly detection (to be deployed gradually even if it shows “enabled” under Settings).
- Improved Self-Protection by requiring escalated privileges to disable protections or deactivate a license.
- Enhanced malware protection techniques and remediation capabilities.
- Added an automatic monthly scheduled scan in Free mode.
- Added ability to control the priority of manual scans on the system.
- Added setting to turn off 'Real-Time Protection turned off' notifications when protection was specifically disabled by the user.
- Added ability to exclude the last website blocked by Web Protection via the tray menú.
- Fixed several defects related to configuring Custom Scans, including selecting child folders and fixing issues with touch screens.
- Fixed problem where a right-click context scan appeared broken after scheduled scan due to misleading "Cannot start a scan while another one is in progress" message.
- Fixed issue where you could not add or edit a scheduled scan in Spanish and some other languages.
- Fixed issue where scan could appear stuck on Heuristics Analysis when it had actually completed successfully.
- Fixed issue where Self-Protection setting would fail to toggle correctly after an upgrade.
- Fixed several crashes in the Web Protection module.
- Fixed issue where Ransomware Protection would be stuck in 'Starting' state after a reboot.
- Fixed a conflict with Norton that caused web pages not to load and plug-ins to crash in Chrome.
- Fixed issue with WMI protection technique in Exploit Protection that could cause Office applications to crash.
- Fixed several crashes related to the service and tray.
- Fixed security vulnerabilities that could be chained together to perform local privilege escalation.
- Fixed many other miscellaneous defects and user interface improvements.
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