Robert in CA wrote:
I went ahead and install it with your link. I
have a Avast pop- up that I closed. This
version of malwarebytes looks different then
the pervious version.

Robert

After 14 days, Malwarebytes will revert to the free (On Demand)
version, at which time Avast will stop presenting
its popup.

Malwarebytes at the moment the trial version starts,
is in "real time protection" mode.

Avast is in "real time protection" mode.

Avast doesn't like it, when it sees Malwarebytes doing that.

In 14 days time, Malwarebytes will turn off its
"real time protection" and will only do anything if
you ask it for "an On-Demand scan". That's basically
a signature scan, not behavioral detection.

You could pay for Malwarebytes or you could pay
for Avast. Avast at least, will try to snow you
with all sorts of crap of dubious value. Malwarebytes
would like to do that too, except they probably
don't have the staff or the money to do that
at the moment. Things like email scanning, web browser
scanning, and assorted bits of messing around.

If you pay for Malwarebytes, it's similar to keeping the
feature set you see now in the Trial mode. It has some
behavioral protection, which means if a new malware
with unknown signature comes along, and it tries
to hook the OS random number generator, Malwarebytes
would catch that. We don't know if Avast would
catch that.

To me, using the Free Avast for primary protection,
and keeping Free Malwarebytes for On Demand scans,
is the best usage of money. You could say as a
potential purchaser of software today, I'm not
that impressed with the quality of what is for sale.
So if running a free mode gets the job done,
that's about as far as I'd go.

There might be other brands which are more effective.
But, the winners and losers keep changing. You can use
web sites like AV-Comparatives to see which product
has the best "this or that" protection. There might be
one other web site that does similar testing.

Paul