After Malwarebytes has acquired the ADWCleaner malware removal tool (not requiring installation on a computer for testing and not conflicting with antiviruses), it also combined your own Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Anti-Rootkit and Anti-Exploit in one product - MalwareBytes 3 which is default (for a 14-day trial period or after purchase) operates in real time, i.e. As an ordinary antivirus, blocking various types of threats. The scanning and check results from this did not become worse (rather, improved), but if earlier when installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, you could be confident in the absence of conflicts with antivirus, now, in the presence of third-party antiviruses such conflicts, theoretically may arise.
If you encountered an unusual behavior of the program, your anti-virus or with the fact that Windows began to slow down immediately after installing MalwareBytes, I recommend to disable real-time protection in MalwareBytes in the "Parameters" section - "Protection".
After that, the program will work as a simple scanner, running manually and does not affect the real-time protection of other antivirus products.
Verification of a computer for malicious programs and other threats to MalwareBytes
Check in the new version of MalwareBytes is carried out as in real time (i.e., you will see notifications if the program detects something unwanted on your computer), and manually and, in the case of a third-party antivirus, can be the best option to scan manually .
- To check, run (open) MalwareBytes and click "Run Verify" in the information panel or in the "Check" menu section, click "Full Check".
- A system scanning will begin, according to the results of which you will see a report.
- It is not always convenient for familiarization (the exact file paths and additional information are not visible). Using the "Save Results" button, you can save the results into a text file and familiarize yourself with them in it.
- Remove the marks from those files that, in your opinion, should not be deleted and click "Place the selected objects in quarantine".
- When placed in quarantine, you may be prompted to restart the computer.
- After rebooting, a program can be launched for a long time (and in the task manager you will see that MalwareBytes Service greatly loads the processor).
- After the program has been restarted, you can delete all objects placed in quarantine. Going to the appropriate section of the program or restore some of them, if it turned out that after the room in Quarantine, something from your software began to work not as needed .
In fact, the room in quarantine in the case of MalwareBytes is the removal of the program from the previous location and the program to the ability to restore in case of unforeseen situations. Just in case, I do not recommend removing objects from quarantine while you definitely do not make sure that everything is in order.
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Additional Information
MalwareBytes is a relatively simple program, in a clear Russian language and, I think, there should be no particular difficulties from the user.Among other things, you can note the following points that may be useful:
- In the "Appendix" section, you can reduce the priority of Malwarebytes checks in the "Effect of System Performance Checks".
- You can check a specific folder or file using MalwareBytes using the context menu (right click on this file or folder).
- To use the verification with the Windows 10 Defender (8) separately from MalwareBytes, when real-time protection is enabled in the program, and you also do not want to see Malwarebytes notifications in the Windows Defender Security Center in Settings - application - Windows Support Center Install "Never register Malwarebytes in the Windows Support Center.
- In Settings - Exceptions, you can add files, folders and sites (the program can also block the opening of malicious sites) in the exception of MalwareBytes.
How to remove malwarebytes from a computer
The standard delete path of Malwarebytes from a computer - go to the control panel, open the "Programs and Components" item, find MalwareBytes in the list and click "Delete".
Or, in Windows 10, go to parameters - applications and capabilities, click on MalwareBytes, and then - "Delete" button.
However, if for some reason these methods do not work, there is a special utility for removing Malwarebytes products from a computer - MalwareBytes Support Tool:
- Go to https://support.malwarebytes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039023473-Uninstall-Dhe -MalwareBytes-Support-Tool and click on the Download the Latest Version of the MalwareBytes Support Tool.
- Agree with changes to the utility on your computer.
- Click the Advanced tab and click the Clean button. Confirm the deletion of all MalwareBytes components in Windows.
- After a short period of time, you will be prompted to restart your computer to completely remove MalwareBytes, click "Yes."
- Important: After rebooting, you will be asked to download and install MalwareBytes, click "No" (NO).
- At the end, you will see a message that if the removal failed, you should attach the MB-Clean-Results.txt file from the desktop to request to support support (if you managed to remove it).
On this malwarebytes, if everything went regularly, it must be removed from your computer.
Work with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Note: The latest version of MalwareBytes Anti-Malware 2.2.1 was released in 2016 and is no longer available on the official website for download. However, on third-party resources it can be found.Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is one of the most popular and, at the same time, effective means to combat malware. In this case, I note that this is not an antivirus, but an additional tool for Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and 7, which allows you to increase the security of the computer, working together with a good antivirus on the computer.
In this manual, I will show the basic settings and functions that the program offers to configure the computer protection properly (some of them are available only in Premium version, but all the main is also free).
And to begin with, why need programs like Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, when the antivirus is installed on the computer. The fact is that antiviruses detect and determine the viruses, trojans and similar elements that pose a threat to your computer.
But, for the most part, it is loyal to those installed (often hidden) potentially undesirable programs that can cause pop-up windows with advertising in the browser, keep some kind of obscure activities on the computer. At the same time, such things are very difficult to delete and detect the novice user. It is to remove such unwanted programs that there are utilities, about one of which will be discussed in this article. More about other such tools - the best means of removing malicious programs.
Scanning system and removal of unwanted
System scanning in Malwarebytes Anti-Malware I only briefly, since everything is very simple and understandable, I will write more about the available program settings. After the first launch of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, you can immediately run the system check, which at the beginning can take a fairly long time.
Upon completion of the check, you will receive a list of threats discovered on a computer with their description - malicious software, unwanted programs and others with their location. You can choose that from the detected you would like to leave on a computer, removing the mark from the corresponding item (for example, it is quite likely that the files loaded by you loaded by you are noticeable - to leave them, despite the potential danger, to solve you).
You can delete the detected threats by simply clicking "Delete Selected", after which you can also need to restart the computer for the final removal.
In addition to the full scan, you can run a selective or quick check with the appropriate tab of the program to quickly detect active (started at the moment) of malicious programs.
Main parameters Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
When entering the settings, you will enter the page of the basic parameters, which contains the following items:
- Notifications - Display notifications in Windows notifications when threats are found. Default included.
- Program language and notification time.
- The context menu in the explorer - embeds the "Scan Malwarebytes Anti-Malware" item in the right mouse button in the explorer.
If you are constantly using this utility, I recommend to enable the context menu item in the explorer, especially in the free version where there is no real-time scanning. It can be convenient.
Detection and Protection Settings
One of the main settings of the program is "detection and protection". At this point, you can configure or disable protection against malicious programs, potentially dangerous sites, and unwanted software.
In the usual case, it is better to keep all available options (from the default turned off, I recommend to include "check for rootkit"), which, I think, do not need special explanations. However, it may be that you may need to install any program that is detected by MalwareBytes Anti-Malware as malicious, in this situation, you can enable ignoring such threats, but it is better to do this by adjusting exceptions.
Exceptions and Web Exceptions
In cases where you need to exclude certain files or folders from the scan, you can add them to the list in the "Exceptions" settings. It can be useful when you think there is no particular threat from the program, but MalwareBytes Anti-Malware always wants to remove or place it in quarantine.Web exclusion item is not available in the free version, and it serves to stop protecting Internet connections, while you can add a process on a computer that will be allowed by any Internet connection, or add an IP address or address of the site (add domain item ») So that all programs on the computer have not blocked access to the specified address.
Extended parameters
Changing the advanced MalwareBytes Anti-Malware options is available only for Premium version. Here you can configure the automatic program launch, turn on the self-defense module, disable the addition of detected threats to quarantine and other parameters.
I note that it is very strange that for the free version it is not available to disabling the autorun program when entering Windows. However, you can turn it off by manually by standard OS tools - how to remove programs from autoload.
Scheduler tasks and access policies
Two more functions that are not in the free version of the program, which, however, may be a certain benefit.
In access policies, it is possible to limit access to certain program parameters, as well as user actions by installing a password on them.
The task scheduler in turn makes it easy to configure the automatic scanning of the computer for unwanted programs, as well as change the parameters of automatic updates to Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.