![]() ![]() Malware and potentially unwanted program (PUP) protection.Malwarebytes’s real-time protection (available only on the paid plans) includes 4 different layers of protection: The Threat Scan is a good option for users who want to quickly check their files for malware, and I found it easy to select whether to scan a single folder or my entire disk with the Custom Scan option. Overall, Malwarebytes has an industry-average detection rate of around 95%, which is pretty good. ![]() This can help you identify false positives so you don’t accidentally remove them. You can also easily review and save the scan results, and if you want to know more about the individual detections, just click on them, and Malwarebytes will take you to a webpage dedicated to that type of malware, with an explanation on how it works and how it most likely ended up on your computer. While this is a good score, competitors like Norton and Bitdefender, have a perfect 100% malware detection rate. But the full disk scan detected 95% of malware (although it took about 3 hours, which is pretty long for a full disk scan). Once Malwarebytes completed the Threat Scan, it found around 76% of the files. Before installing Malwarebytes on my Windows device, I downloaded around 1,000 malicious files (viruses, trojans, spyware, etc.) to my test PC. When testing the scanner against malware samples, I got decent results. This is on par with competitors’ quick scans, which usually take anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes. Note that Malwarebytes doesn’t have a default full system scan option, so if you want to check your entire system for malware, you need to use the custom scan and select your C: drive from the available options (which is a little annoying!).ĭuring my tests, the Threat Scan was fast - it took 1 minute and 33 seconds to scan over 260,000 files on my device. Lets you pick any file or folder you want to scan (including the entire disk). Checks your memory and startup programs for active infections.
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