Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Active Protection

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Does Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware's Active Protection module include e-mail scanning? It appears that it does not, but I'm not sure.

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MBAM does not provide email scanning.

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You can always give it a suggestion, though: http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showforum=12

Nice to see you over there, YoKenny :)

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You can always give it a suggestion, though: http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showforum=12

Nice to see you over there, YoKenny :)

Thanks for the welcome.

I promote MBAM wherever I visit.

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The new fella with the walking skeleton avatar over at MBAM's forum may be someone we know as well. ;)

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I just started using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (Free) a few days ago and have done a couple of Quick Scans. So far, it seems to have a little higher detection rate than some other anti-malware apps I've used (SAS, AVG, etc.). Is this just my imagine, or is MBAM a tad better at doing what it's supposed to do?

Because I'm currently using the freeware version, the Active Protection is not included, so I don't really know how well that part performs.

One other thing for those familiar with this MBAM . . . does it include anti-virus as well as other anti-malware detection?

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I think MBAM is geared more towards being a specialist Trojan/Antispyware/Rogue Remover rather than your conventional Virii.

If you ever come across anything suspect you could upload to MBAM for them to have a look at and maybe inclusion to MBAM's detection/removal data base.

Bruce Harrison

Malwarebytes Lead Researcher:

MBAM will continue to gain weapons and tools and continue to gain ground on all of the malware that conventional AVs cant handle . We have progressed far enough that we are now in the process of acquiring many of the top freelance researchers and this will push our abilities even further . What they have seen so far is the result of a single researcher , by 09 we will have 5 .

MBAM has heuristics and special case malware heuristics for common problem infections like vundo and zlob many others.