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Title: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: ANHTHU5991 on April 12, 2011, 03:18:24 AM
I plan to use Malwarebytes with avast but
is there any conflict when using Malwarebytes along with Avast?
Malwarebytes is strong or not?



Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: Lisandro on April 12, 2011, 03:21:19 AM
You can use it. They do not conflict with avast. It's a very good product.
Are you going to use the paid (resident) or the free (on demand) MBAM?
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: ANHTHU5991 on April 12, 2011, 03:28:46 AM
I'm going to use free Malwarebytes. It doesn't has realtime protection. I wonder if the realtime protection always causes conflicts?
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: Lisandro on April 12, 2011, 03:31:48 AM
I'm going to use free Malwarebytes. It doesn't has realtime protection. I wonder if the realtime protection always causes conflicts?
No it does not conflict.
But, I use only the free MBAM also. For me, the on demand scanning is enough.
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: ANHTHU5991 on April 12, 2011, 03:36:29 AM
thanks for you opinion. I will install Malwarebytes right now
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: bryonTRN on April 12, 2011, 04:04:21 AM
by the way, malwarebytes DOES have realtime protection - the paid version lets you schedule updates, schedule scans with auto-fixes, and blocks malicious websites before your browser actually loads them.  i highly recommend considering buying the paid version, the low cost is well worth it
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: bebongnuoc on April 12, 2011, 05:33:23 AM
 ;D I am using avast with MAM copyrights are running very smooth, no conflict will occur
 8) ::) :D ;) :)
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: nord on April 12, 2011, 05:39:35 AM
by the way, malwarebytes DOES have realtime protection - the paid version lets you schedule updates, schedule scans with auto-fixes, and blocks malicious websites before your browser actually loads them.  i highly recommend considering buying the paid version, the low cost is well worth it


bryon,

Agree completely. I have the pro version too and it doesn't conflict with Avast at all. If you have a suspect program and it is a false positive, just add it to the Ignore List and no worries.

Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: ANHTHU5991 on April 12, 2011, 06:40:54 AM
Before that, i used clamwin portable along with avast. It not bad :)
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: avragorn on April 13, 2011, 11:53:20 AM
It can cause conflicts : I use both (free) and each time I scan with MALWAREBYTES ANTIMALWARES, AVAST finds false positives during the MBAM scan !
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: Zyndstoff (aka Steven Gail) on April 13, 2011, 11:55:47 AM
It can cause conflicts : I use both (free) and each time I scan with MALWAREBYTES ANTIMALWARES, AVAST finds false positives during the MBAM scan !


MBAM (On Demand) and Avast just work fine together. I have never before heard of this FP detection you are writing about.
So I think it must be in your Avast-settings maybe.
Did you alter the settings or do you have the default Avast settings employed?
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: avragorn on April 13, 2011, 11:56:52 AM
Hello,
Thank you for the answer :)
I have the default settings, I never change any settings.
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: Zyndstoff (aka Steven Gail) on April 13, 2011, 12:02:58 PM
Hello,
Thank you for the answer :)
I have the default settings, I never change any settings.


Thats odd.
What and where are the files that are the FPs?
And what Version of Avast are you using? 4, 5, 6.0.1000 or 6.0.1044?
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: avragorn on April 13, 2011, 12:42:57 PM
It happened with AVAST 5 and now it happens with the newest version 6.0.1044.

It always finds an element from Firefox as FP. It doesn't finds it as FPs each time but often. I already posted here about this FP and someone from the AVAST lab told me it is a FP.
So AVAST keeps on finding it sometimes :( And always during the MBAM scans !

Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: Zyndstoff (aka Steven Gail) on April 13, 2011, 12:45:49 PM
It happened with AVAST 5 and now it happens with the newest version 6.0.1044.

It always finds an element from Firefox as FP. It doesn't finds it as FPs each time but often. I already posted here about this FP and someone from the AVAST lab told me it is a FP.
So AVAST keeps on finding it sometimes :( And always during the MBAM scans !


Does not happen on my system. I'm using FF 4 and 6.0.1044 and MBAM.
Maybe one of your FF add-ons or plug-ins?
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: avragorn on April 13, 2011, 01:02:57 PM
Yes, it comes from the add-ons, but there are no malicious add-ons. Sometimes AVAST considers it as a malware, sometimes not :(
Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: nord on April 13, 2011, 04:01:52 PM
It happened with AVAST 5 and now it happens with the newest version 6.0.1044.

It always finds an element from Firefox as FP. It doesn't finds it as FPs each time but often. I already posted here about this FP and someone from the AVAST lab told me it is a FP.
So AVAST keeps on finding it sometimes :( And always during the MBAM scans !



I use FF 3.6.16 and don't see that with Avast 6.0.1.1000 and MalwarebytesPro 1.50.1.1000. Which versions are you using?

Title: Re: Malwarebytes and Avast
Post by: avragorn on April 14, 2011, 12:26:17 AM

I use FF 3.6.16 and don't see that with Avast 6.0.1.1000 and MalwarebytesPro 1.50.1.1000. Which versions are you using?



I have the latest versions of MBAM and AVAST but it happens since a few months, so it happened with AVAST 5 too :(

But ... I am sorry to say that ... but I uninstalled AVAST and I installed another antivirus, because there are too many problems with the new AVAST version, I can't search anything on my computer with the search tool ... it made firefox too slow ...
So it is my last message here :(

Bye :(