This is indeed the preferred reflex as PUPs are not necessarily to be harmful, and if you extract them, then they can remove the programs they come along with. Now during our test, it was seen that the applications malware scanner picked some files as well as a registry entry left over from an incomplete uninstallation of a third party driver management utility that, according to Malwarebytes might have bundled up a potentially unwanted program (PUP).īy default, it places such files in negligence rather than deleting them. It is good to have such kind of transparency regarding your data and the limited extent of it as it is not as common as it should be in the security industry. Its privacy and security policy carries detailed and simplified explanations side by side.

Where it is being used globally and what kind of malware is being detected the most and how often. Take the example of “ usage and threat stats.” This is used to cover the anonymous usage of data that it is used to collect.įrom the description provided on its websites, it is used to bring in items like how many users out there are running the free version, trial version, and subscription versions. Simple to use and install by newbiesĪs the other security vendors often slather on fancy terminologies, Malwarebytes is best at telling what particular feature is doing. During our testing, we can say that we did not see and BSODs or even RSODS. As a result, it was not easy to distinguish between the paid and free versions. Now with version 4.0, many of the users experience some random blue screen errors unless Malwarebytes active scanning function was disabled.

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