Tech help please

2/10/2018

[tschatski]

Any FReepers have experience with Malwarebytes? Is it worth buying or is the free version enough?

[knarf]

Free version works for me

[Paladin2]

Start with the free stuff for home use.

[big bad easter bunny]

top of the line, both free and buying are both good choices.

[tschatski]

No problems with it?

[Yosemitest]

Dump Windows, move to Apple, and you won't need it.
But as long as you run Windows, you MUST have malware protection.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I have it, I like it, I have not tried at 35 different antivirus products so I cannot compare them. It appears to function. I think that a person must do something or other in the current environment to protect themselves against various viruses and malware. There is no defense that is going to catch every single everything, but I believe it is incumbent upon someone who relies upon their computer to do something. To clarify, I bought the $30 version I think. Get updates fairly frequently it has prevented me from going to a couple of sites that I wanted to go to that I know are not dangerous, but overall I think it is a valid piece of insurance.

[Sub-Driver]

Free

[tschatski]

THAK YOU EVERYONE! Great info

[tschatski]

should be THANK

[glennaro]

Free version works great and I recommend to supplement your virus protection software.

The only problem I had (not a big deal) is that it picked up one of my applications (GIMP used to format and size image files) as a PUP/possible malware. It isn’t so I simply excluded the application from the Malwarebytes scan — easy to do if you run across it.

[Hootowl]

My biggest problem with it was that it kept blocking web sites that I’d never had problems with and, as far as I knew, were safe. That said, it’s a good tool and I have it on my computer but disabled until I want to run it.

[Manuel OKelley]

Sophos has a free home use product now that is top notch...would not use anything else

[umgud]

I’ve had the free version for years. Seems to work or I’m just lucky.

[Dr. Sivana]

Dump Windows, move to Apple, and you won't need it.

If he is price-conscious enough to worry about a utility program, he may not be inetersted in getting new hardware and Mac versions of all software, if equivalents are even available.

For the record, I like Macs just fine, but they are not for everyone. I have owned numerous Macs going back to the Plus, was on the original waitlist at U of Chicago for a 128K original Mac (couldn't afford the $1,159 student price (which wouldn't even include an Imagewriter), and worked for three years as a Mac administrator in a New England college.

[The Westerner]

The one thing about the Mac product that puzzles me is how to right click on anything? My old Dell desktop, now frozen at XP, is simpler to navigate at that level.

[Texan5]

I downloaded the free version about 5 months ago, and it works fine for me.

[sargon]

Go with the free version. It should be just about the only thing you need. You can complement it with others like SuperAntiSpyware, but MWB anti-malware is top of the line. I’ve used it for years...

[whinecountry]

Took my wife’s PC in for service as it was locked up. The tech found multiple viruses, trojan horses, etc., even though she was running the free version. He said to get the paid version to provide better protection. Just our experience, YMMV.

[Dr. Sivana]

The one thing about the Mac product that puzzles me is how to right click on anything? My old Dell desktop, now frozen at XP, is simpler to navigate at that level.

You can use two-button mice on Macs, it just isn't mandatory. That was a philosophical decision. Jobs wanted the simplicity of one-button, so you wouldn't pick the wrong one. Engineers running AutoCAD had Three button mice forever and still use them. X-Windows used them since the early '80s. The two button mouse was kind of a Microsoft approach, which really only came into play with Windows 95, after people got used to mice that generally required only left clicks/holds for almost everything.