The 'take-home' message: one needs BOTH traditional 'anti-virus' protection AND 'anti-malware' protection in real-time these days. Even with MBAM Premium, one needs a robust, real-time AV. But, as also pointed out, MBAM never was and is not an AV. Most of the other AVs are relatively weak on certain types of non-viral malware (especially zero-hour and zero-day threats). The product name change as 'anti-malware' was deliberate on the part of that publisher, at least in part to reflect the fact that most malware these days is non-viral. I guess I'll go back to the free version of MalWareBytes and go buy a real Anti Virus.įor the record, MBAM Free is only a manual, on-demand scanner to help REMOVE malware that made it past your AV onto the system.įor layered, complementary real-time anti-malware protection alongside your AV to help PREVENT infection, you'll need MBAM is correct - EAM is currently the only major 'anti-virus' with both anti-virus and anti-malware protection. Endpoint Detection & Response for Servers
