What are the Advanages of MBAM

[Coolmario88]

I been wondering what are the Advanages of MBAM.  And Does It Take Up free space per update?

[Pondus]

If something goes under the avast radar or avast have problems removing it, then Malwarebytes will remove it in most cases
Malwarebytes speciality is detecting and removing rogue security programs......and a lot more

[yongsua]

It can detect and remove malwares that most of the AV can't.It is good for you to have MBAM to scan your PC weekly.

[YoKenny]

Plus its one time licence fee provides Website Blocking that prevents the malware from getting on your system in the first place. 
It then includes automatic updates and a Flash scan on an update and updates are several per day.
The update file does not take up much space that is about 6MB on my systems.
I have MBAM set to run a Quick scan each morning as I would not want to wait a week to find out some malware had invaded my system. 

[Coolmario88]

Thank you all for the replies!  I may install MBAM very soon..

[MikeBCda]

About the only negative feature of MBAM (I've got the free version) is that each update reloads the full defs database, currently pushing 6 megs.  Supposedly they were going to convert to an incremental-update system, similar to avast's, sometime last summer, but I haven't yet seen that or heard anything recently about it.  If I check Disk Cleanup, it apparently leaves behind about the same amount of temporary internet files (possibly a backup copy of the old defs?), which SAS also does, both of which can be safely cleaned out.

On the plus side, they've made a huge improvement in the scanning engine, and a quick scan now takes about half as long as it did say a year ago, maybe 2-3 minutes now on my system.

[DavidR]

Yes that was a big nag for me when I was on dial-up, but then I only did a weekly scan on the free MBAM version and right before that I would get the latest update, so it was only once a week.

Now I have fast broadband the just under 6MB update takes under two seconds, as opposed to 15-18 minutes.

[YoKenny]

Yes that was a big nag for me when I was on dial-up, but then I only did a weekly scan on the free MBAM version and right before that I would get the latest update, so it was only once a week.

Now I have fast broadband the just under 6MB update takes under two seconds, as opposed to 15-18 minutes.

I would expect negative comments from a user with a Celeron 2.2ghz, 256 meg RAM that is barley able to run XP-Home SP3 

[Coolmario88]

Does it hog memory? and does effect the way i update programs like IE, windows updates, tweetdeck?  Does it slow down computers?

Edit: I'm asking these questions is because I don't want to download a program that will slow down my computer.

[DavidR]

Yes that was a big nag for me when I was on dial-up, but then I only did a weekly scan on the free MBAM version and right before that I would get the latest update, so it was only once a week.

Now I have fast broadband the just under 6MB update takes under two seconds, as opposed to 15-18 minutes.

I would expect negative comments from a user with a Celeron 2.2ghz, 256 meg RAM that is barley able to run XP-Home SP3 

It isn't a negative comment but one which is correct, the update has been growing steadily and MBAM have been promising faster and incremental updates for a considerable time. I remember it when I was still on dial-up (almost 5 months ago) and that was something which stopped me purchasing the Pro version when on dial-up. Not to mention I had 2GB RAM and a relatively fast processor, but you can't squeeze it down the pipe any faster.

I even contacted MBAM about this pathetic practice of having to download the complete database every time (quoting avasts excellent incremental updates) and they said they were working on improving the update speed, that was much further back than 5 months.

So they haven't come through on that and are doing a disservice to their users on dial-up who may well consider purchase if it weren't so damn slow to update. Well 15-18 minutes each and every update is no joke and rules out resident protection with it auto updates.

[YoKenny]

Does it hog memory? and does effect the way i update programs like IE, windows updates, tweetdeck?  Does it slow down computers?

Edit: I'm asking these questions is because I don't want to download a program that will slow down my computer.

It does not hog memory. It does not affect update programs like IE nor Windows Updates.
I do not use tweetdeck.

On Windows 7 it uses about the same amount of memory as on my XP Pro system.
If you are on high speed connection the updates are almost instantaneous but with dial-up the updates take a while.
With your system MBAM Pro should be no problem.

[mokkaman]

can v have real time protection of mbam and avast ON at the same time ??

[YoKenny]

can v have real time protection of mbam and avast ON at the same time ??

Yes. 

[DavidR]

can v have real time protection of mbam and avast ON at the same time ??

MBAM Pro is on my win7 netbook with avast 6.0.945 beta, as I don't have SAS Pro on that one.

[scythe944]

Well, I know what the disadvantages are: none.

It's free, it finds most things that are able to get by avast, and it's free.

What's not to like?

Don't think about it, just use it!