This is a fantastic anti-malware tool that I have used many times to clean infected PC’s.  A major new version was released today with the following changes.

  • Dramatically improved scan speed: up to 3-5 times faster on many machines.
  • Dramatically improved stability of both the scanner and Protection Module (Free and PRO versions, respectively).
  • More responsive: program loads up to 3 times faster, and protection module has lower impact on system resources (PRO version only).
  • New internal detection algorithms enable detection of more real-world malware.

Free and Pro versions are available.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

11-30-2010 7-45-18 AM


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on Nov 30, 2010

Got it. Thanks ID for the heads up.

on Nov 30, 2010

Updated . Thanks .

on Nov 30, 2010

on Nov 30, 2010

Malwarebytes is good stuff. Thanks!

on Nov 30, 2010

Is there any conficts with this and your A/V program you are running?

on Nov 30, 2010

Err, the download page still says 1.46?

I'll stick with MSE anyway so I might not've said anything otherwise

on Nov 30, 2010

  Thanks for the heads up !

on Nov 30, 2010

Philly0381
Is there any conficts with this and your A/V program you are running?

Very possibly.  Generally recommended practice is to only run one at a time.

on Nov 30, 2010

I use Avast as my real time, always running anti virus. But as we all know, no program catches everything, so I use Malwarebytes free version for on demand scanning as a hope to catch anything Avast may miss.

 

Malwarebytes is always able to remove the rogue anti virus that we see afflicting PCs calling itself Anti Virus 2010, etc. I have needed it to remove it from several PCs.

on Nov 30, 2010

At least with some anti-virus programs the problem is that they check each file you try to access before you access it... this is normally a reasonably good thing. When you want to scan every file on your PC quickly, it means you do twice the job for little discernable benefit, and can get unpleasant conflicts if both find something.

Malwarebytes' anti-malware thingy is VERY good, so I recommend getting it, but disable anti-virus realtime scanning while you run it, and then enable it again when you're done.

 

on Nov 30, 2010

Very useful program. Thanks for letting us know about the update.

on Nov 30, 2010

been using 1.50 beta for some time now. Nice to see it's finally been released as a full update. Great program and i have never seen it cause any problems with other antivirus software. I use it as an on demand scanner and not as a "all the time" program

on Nov 30, 2010

Thank you very much for the heads up. This is a great program. I have the pro version and I would reccomend to anyone interested to install it and judge for yourself.

 

on Dec 01, 2010