Jo-Anne news 17 Dec 2017 07:58:05 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

Thank you again, Diesel. What you say is very interesting. I was
using Malwarebytes only as needed and was surprised when what was
supposed to be a regular update turned into a trial version. I
haven't reinstalled the free version yet and probably won't now.
Any recommendations for something else to run occasionally to
check for malware that my antivirus program might have missed? (I
do run Super AntiSpyware the same way I did Malwarebytes, but as
far as I know they look for different things.)


Superantispyware and Malwarebytes both look for what is non
replicating malware. You'll be fine continuing to use
Superantispyware and your antivirus of choice. Along with practice
good safer-hex. Your antivirus program doesn't look for viruses and
stop there and they never have, despite some malvertising to suggest
otherwise. One day, Malwarebytes might be the first between them and
Superantispyware to detect something and it'll change the very next
day. That's the nature of the beast. It doesn't mean one product is
better than the other with detection or protection offered, though.
As both can miss something your antivirus catches and vice versa.
There's alot of malware out there, especially when it's generated on
the fly server side when you visit the bad page. At that point, it's
a brand new sample that most likely, no av/am product already knows
about well enough to flag it. That's where safe-hex practices come
in.

You're the best protection your computer has against unwanted code.

Malwarebytes actually detects a very small amount of malware in
general as compared to your antivirus. And, unlike your antivirus,
due to a very bad database design they refuse to change, No culling
of definitions is necessary from time to time to reduce the size of
the database and not overload the engine that requires it.

It's bad form and irresponsible to remove definitions to older
malware just because you think the malware no longer poses a
potential threat and has gone extinct. Yet, entirely due to a badly
designed database layout, that's exactly what Malwarebytes is forced
to do from time to time. I know of no other company in such a
position.

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