malwarebytes + antivirus

Pygmyshrew · 19 Sep 2010 at 17:43

Is it counter productive to a systems performance to have malwarebytes running in protection mode along side an antivirus scanner like MSE? They're not scanning the same stuff are they? :confused:

Infam0us · 19 Sep 2010 at 19:03

Do you have Realtime switched on Malwarebytes?

Pygmyshrew · 19 Sep 2010 at 19:59

Infam0us said:
Do you have Realtime switched on Malwarebytes?

Yep which has got me thinking that might be overkill?

Rainmaker · 20 Sep 2010 at 00:03

MalwareBytes does catch the odd trojan etc, but its real value is in blocking malicious IPs before you even get the bad stuff onto your computer. A decent anti-malware suite is a more important proviso though, and I find MaBam uses around 30MB of RAM, whereas my entire AV suite only uses 10MB... Personally I don't trust MSE after my experience with it. I use Comodo Internet Security which catches 100% of malware due to its defense+ and default-deny policy on the sandbox. I just run MaBam once a week to be sure. YMMV.

EDIT: Just to clarify. MaBam is awesome when run on-demand, and catches almost everything. Its detection engine is really very good. For some reason though it's not so good at real-time protection in my experience (I test against malicious 0day malware regularly). It will, for whatever reason, allow malware though and then pick it up when you ask it to do a normal on-demand scan. Weird. For 30MB RAM I wouldn't bother, personally. Keep it as a weekly check.

j.col · 20 Sep 2010 at 21:48

Rainmaker said:
EDIT: Just to clarify. MaBam is awesome when run on-demand, and catches almost everything. Its detection engine is really very good. For some reason though it's not so good at real-time protection in my experience (I test against malicious 0day malware regularly). It will, for whatever reason, allow malware though and then pick it up when you ask it to do a normal on-demand scan. Weird. For 30MB RAM I wouldn't bother, personally. Keep it as a weekly check.

i agree ^^^^ i just use avast real time scanner and MaBam as an on demand scanner, and also spybot for old times sake

i used to use a anti spy real time scanner (can't remember which one :confused:

) but i found it slowed my internet down, so i got rid :rolleyes:

Infam0us · 20 Sep 2010 at 23:10

Pygmyshrew said:
Yep which has got me thinking that might be overkill?

Yes, MSE has realtime switched on so if you have Malware on aswell thats 2 realtime scanners switched on at the same time both scanning the same files. In other words there's no point just pick the stronger scanner

Bony Maloney · 21 Sep 2010 at 14:15

I run MSE realtime and Malwarebytes once per week. That covers it for me.

wilko49 · 22 Sep 2010 at 00:53

I'm running Kaspersky and doing a full scan with both that and Malwarebytes once a week, plus scanning all downloaded files with both. Also weekly scans with Windows Defender... am I being paranoid enough, or do I need more?

Swinbag · 22 Sep 2010 at 09:07

Bony Maloney said:
I run MSE realtime and Malwarebytes once per week. That covers it for me.

Same here, I wouldn't run both in real-time to be honest.

Pygmyshrew · 22 Sep 2010 at 14:40

Since disabling Malwarebytes real time the system notably websites seem to be loading faster. Of course that could be a placebo, the alignment of the stars etc...