Malwarebytes Premium 4.0.1 - A Worthy Contender

[EndangeredPootis]

Altough having pretty much no flaws, I find their practice of calling normal antivirus "dumb" and the performance impact the only reasons I wont recommend their product, considering "normal" antivirus not only have the same features (and more) as MBAM, like AI/Machine Learning, exploit protection, ransomware protection etc, they still have a lower performance impact and better protection.

 

[Bryan320]

I love malwarebytes and have a lifetime key but i cannot stand how sluggish it makes my system. they have improved detection but they need to work on getting it to run lighter!! They have all the resources to do so not sure why it's been so heavy for so long...

 

[blackice]

If you only tested in a VM I would say that may be an issue with performance. I’ve run Malwarebytes with WD and the only thing it slowed down dramatically was file transfers. It also slowed down programs loading, but it didn’t seem like what you experienced. But, I am on an i7, so it that probably fits your comment on it’s impact.

 

[EndangeredPootis]

If you only tested in a VM I would say that may be an issue with performance. I’ve run Malwarebytes with WD and the only thing it slowed down dramatically was file transfers. It also slowed down programs loading, but it didn’t seem like what you experienced. But, I am on an i7, so it that probably fits your comment on it’s impact.

I have personally used it on my host system aswell because I have a one year license for it, and it slowed down that a lot aswell, the most out of any antivirus infact, and ive used many.

 

[Bryan320]

I have personally used it on my host system aswell because I have a one year license for it, and it slowed down that a lot aswell, the most out of any antivirus infact, and ive used many.

i agree but the protection is pretty good although..... i would also like it to be somewhat lighter...

 

[Local Host]

MB is well known to be a resource hog.

 

[Bryan320]

EndangeredPootis in you're test did you pair malwarebytes with the browserguard? Browserguard will detect more sites as malicious then the antimalware application itself increasing the protection.

 

[Mahesh Sudula]

PROS: Good matured signatures, Great anti phishing with extension, PUP detection is good
Cons:
Ransom protection is slow n delayed, triggers upon encryption in most cases | Sophos
Poor self protection + seen ransom encrypting some of the MBAM files itself | Sophos
Not enough powerful to use as standalone AV.Need to combine with some AV.
Free version is enough + Free av + MBAM extension delivers better results over PRO VERSION

 

[Nightwalker]

I like Malwarebytes Premium and I think it is much better than people give it credit for, imo it is much better at keeping a machine clean than most antivirus solutions nowadays.

The problem with Malwarebytes Premium is it ridiculous system performance impact, it is noticeable even in my Ryzen 5 3600 + 16 GB ram 3200 mhz + SSD NvME machine.

 

[blackice]

I have personally used it on my host system aswell because I have a one year license for it, and it slowed down that a lot aswell, the most out of any antivirus infact, and ive used many.

Ah, that makes sense then. If it’s bad on the host it is terrible in a VM I’m sure. Not a good look for them.

I like Malwarebytes Premium and I think it is much better than people give it credit, imo it is much better at keeping a machine clean than most antivirus solutions nowadays.

The problem with Malwarebytes Premium is it ridiculous system performance impact, it is noticeable even in my Ryzen 5 3600 + 16 GB ram 3200 mhz + SSD NvME machine.

I didn’t realize the system impact until I loaded a game and iTunes without it, while testing Bitdefender of all things, and moving a big folder. It was night and day! I was very surprised.

 

[Paul.R]

This software seems heavier then ZoneAlarm...

 

[Bryan320]

someone should create a thread on malwarebytes forums although im sure malwarebytes is already aware of it's sluggishness no??? if you reffer this thread it will be harder for them to deny the truth!!!

 

[Digmor Crusher]

Their aware of it on the Malwarebytes forums, many threads complaining about performance impact there.

 

[Bryan320]

Their aware of it on the Malwarebytes forums, many threads complaining about performance impact there.

what has malwaebytes response been?

 

[Protomartyr]

I didn’t realize the system impact until I loaded a game and iTunes without it, while testing Bitdefender of all things, and moving a big folder. It was night and day! I was very surprised.

Did you have Malwarebytes Premium running alongside Bitdefender?

I'm currently running Windows Defender (with ConfigureDefender set to Max) and Malwarebytes Premium (lifetime license) together on this laptop that has 8 GB of RAM. I run VMs on this machine so was wondering if perhaps disabling some of the real-time protection modules could help regain some performance.

What modules would you recommend I disable? At the minimum I'd like to keep the Web Protection module enabled at least.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

I have a 4-year key (student discount) but I am not using it for the noticeable performance impact. I will wait till they fix the performance impact.

 

[blackice]

Did you have Malwarebytes Premium running alongside Bitdefender?

I'm currently running Windows Defender (with ConfigureDefender set to Max) and Malwarebytes Premium (lifetime license) together on this laptop that has 8 GB of RAM. I run VMs on this machine so was wondering if perhaps disabling some of the real-time protection modules could help regain some performance.

What modules would you recommend I disable? At the minimum I'd like to keep the Web Protection module enabled at least.

I ran it with WD and only tried Bitdefender after the slowest file transfer ever using MB and WD. I think the web protection module is the most worthwhile module. If you are running it with something else you could probably disable everything else. I’m not sure if the ransomware protection slows things down or not, but you could try it too. I find programs launch much faster without the real-time protection on.

 

[blackice]

I ran it with WD and only tried Bitdefender after the slowest file transfer ever using MB and WD. I think the web protection module is the most worthwhile module. If you are running it with something else you could probably disable everything else. I’m not sure if the ransomware protection slows things down or not, but you could try it too. I find programs launch much faster without the real-time protection on.

To clarify, I have not run Malwarebytes Premium with Bitdefender, or anything other than WD. I do wonder how it is running on it’s own. @Nightwalker may know as he’s been using it recently.

 

[Bryan320]

Malwarebytes currently makes my system feel like an old Iphone 6 that has been throttled down due to battery issues. This is the exact system impact it has....

 

[blackice]

Malwarebytes currently makes my system feel like an old Iphone 6 that has been throttled down due to battery issues. This is the exact system impact it has....

It’s so funny because initially Malwarebytes 3.0 worked great and snappy. I did it even realize how slow it was getting.