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[QuizMaster]

When my dad's laptop got infected with malware, I used Ad-Aware first to remove them but it was unsuccessful. Then I remembered that people helping victims of malware use Malwarebytes to clean their computers. I used MBAM then voila! The laptop is clean.

Malwarebytes can remove malware that other Antivirus/antispywares can't.

What makes it different from the rest?

[GT500]

QuizMaster said:

What makes it different from the rest?

We have brilliant teams of researchers and programmers making the best heuristics the world has ever seen.

[QuizMaster]

GT500, on Jan 23 2009, 04:24 PM, said:

We have brilliant teams of researchers and programmers making the best heuristics the world has ever seen.

Wow. I never knew that MBAM used heuristics, and they're excellent. Other AV's heuristics usually results in a lot of false alarms.

[GT500]

QuizMaster said:

Wow. I never knew that MBAM used heuristics, and they're excellent. Other AV's heuristics usually results in a lot of false alarms.

I think Bruce said that at least two thirds of out database is heuristics. While we do have a few false positives, our guys do so well that we catch more malware with less false positives.

[exile360]

GT500, on Jan 23 2009, 03:38 PM, said:

I think Bruce said that at least two thirds of out database is heuristics. While we do have a few false positives, our guys do so well that we catch more malware with less false positives.

If an FP is discovered, they're very quick to fix it as well, as long as it gets reported. And by quick, I mean usually within an hour or two (sometimes only minutes).

[GT500]

exile360 said:

If an FP is discovered, they're very quick to fix it as well, as long as it gets reported. And by quick, I mean usually within an hour or two (sometimes only minutes).

Yea, Bruce and his team are quick to make sure that issues with the database are taken care of.

[QuizMaster]

exile360, on Jan 24 2009, 12:17 AM, said:

If an FP is discovered, they're very quick to fix it as well, as long as it gets reported. And by quick, I mean usually within an hour or two (sometimes only minutes).

Wow! In other AV's like McAfee, FP's usually takes days (even weeks) to get fixed.

[GT500]

QuizMaster said:

Wow! In other AV's like McAfee, FP's usually takes days (even weeks) to get fixed.

McAfee is slow. Dreadfully slow.

[Tigger93]

Marcin programs, yes, but there are many other people that work as well on definitions and programming (nosirrah is the lead definitions person).

[QuizMaster]

GT500, on Jan 24 2009, 09:01 PM, said:

McAfee is slow. Dreadfully slow.

How about Kaspersky or BitDefender? MBAM is still faster in fixing FP's.

[GT500]

QuizMaster said:

How about Kaspersky or BitDefender? MBAM is still faster in fixing FP's.

Kaspersky is fast. They are hard to beat. It would be interesting to know how the averages compare.

[GT500]

claudiubotezatu said:

What team are you talking about???Every time I asked for an improvment of MBAM I was told that "Marcin Kleczynski" is going to implement it, so it looks like that behind MBAM there is a single mind ,brilliant,is true but not a team....

Marcin is lead developer and company president. He codes the application itself. There are other programmers that code the drivers and protection module, and then Bruce has his separate team of researchers who maintain the database.

[QuizMaster]

GT500, on Jan 24 2009, 10:12 PM, said:

Marcin is lead developer and company president. He codes the application itself. There are other programmers that code the drivers and protection module, and then Bruce has his separate team of researchers who maintain the database.

Why do antivirus/antispyware/firewall apps use drivers?

[Raid]

QuizMaster, on Jan 24 2009, 10:59 PM, said:

Why do antivirus/antispyware/firewall apps use drivers?

Drivers have much higher access to a system than normal applications. Everybody has them nowadays, it's a requirement if you want to defeat resident nasties.

[Raid]

claudiubotezatu, on Jan 24 2009, 10:53 PM, said:

Hi,

I thought "heuristic" is rather an algoritm than a database...


Claudiu
Canada

Your thinking of a database in the old fashion and meaning. Think of an adaptive database, that has... the ability to make.. decisions of sorts.

and as you've already been told, MBAM is more than one person.

kk... Official Intro

Hi there,

My Name is Dustin Cook, I'm one of the persons under Bruce's command responsible for the database that we're all very proud of.

[QuizMaster]

Raid, on Jan 24 2009, 11:15 PM, said:

Drivers have much higher access to a system than normal applications. Everybody has them nowadays, it's a requirement if you want to defeat resident nasties.

So I guess malware writers are also using drivers to infect computers?

[exile360]

QuizMaster, on Jan 24 2009, 10:27 PM, said:

So I guess malware writers are also using drivers to infect computers?

Absolutely, in fact that's the method many malicious rootkits and trojans are using these days, and with MBAM using drivers to scan for and kill the nasties, it's kind of like fighting fire with fire (and it's incredibly effective).