Serious Discussion Pissed with Malwarebytes and its advertisements in premium products.

[Shadowra]

All antivirus do it, it doesn't shock me at all
Whether it's Avast, Avira, Kaspersky, Bitdefender etc... all AVs push you to get options you don't need.
That's marketing

 

[Trident]

Most companies make you put forward an email, and there is no reason they can not push these type things through a friendly email.

Like the friendly emails that I was getting from Panda every single day (fortunately in the junk folder) for months that “protection has expired”. Till I blocked the sender.
Similar emails from K7.

 

[ForgottenSeer 114834]

Like the friendly emails that I was getting from Panda every single day (fortunately in the junk folder) for months that “protection has expired”. Till I blocked the sender.
Similar emails from K7.

Exactly at that point one can block these things if not interested. Certainly better than it popping up in the product constantly.

 

[Jonny Quest]

There is one company that I know of that what you pay for, is what you get. No nag screens, no in your face upgrade options, is F-Secure.
This isn't their current version, as I didn't want to reinstall IS or Total to make the point, but...
Also, if I remember, there was only one box to (un)check to not receive any offers, which I never did get one of.

 

[Templarware]

Yeah, it's sad that even despite you having the paid version, it still bothers you to get the VPN. It's really not that common for a paid program to still nag you, I would dump it.

Best thing I did was buying AVG Internet Security for 2€. Top protection, the system runs faster and smoother than with Windows Defender. No interruptions, no annoyances whatsoever. You don't even know it's there.
Even the free version wouldn't be nearly as bad as this, as it basically doesn't bother you.

 

[nickstar1]

I dont even think some staff members agree with what's been added to the product they have been silent silent on the issue and that speaks volumes.

 

[Sana]

Someone did question about lifetime license and vpn. They finally got a response and a workaround.

[ RESOLVED ] VPN - not available with Lifetime subscription!!!!

I have been a Malwarebytes user since 2013. My 3 subscriptions are "Lifetime". I decided to purchase 4 licenses for VPN support. I am not able to activate the licenses on my windows computers. I opened a ticket with support and their response was not acceptable. I was not advised of this when I p...

forums.malwarebytes.com

 

[TuxTalk]

Trend Micro is also, you get what you see, no nagging, ads, or whatever. And i love the interface, plain and simple.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

I have a lifetime MBAM license too, I am glad they still honor it after all this time. I use it with MS Security/Defender on my Windows laptop. I do see the VPN offer in the GUI but that does not bother me. I don't need a VPN so I just leave it turned off. I don't see the Identity Protection offer in the GUI either. I think the Identity Protection must not be part of the version I got with the lifetime license. I am on v. 5.1.6.117 with the Web Protection, Malware and PUP Protection, Ransomware and Exploit Protection modules active.

The only odd thing I have seen with MBAM is every so often when I boot up my laptop MBAM does not start, and does not show the icon in the task bar like it should. It will start from the desktop shortcut. I think it may do that that when it is updating. I am not real worried about that either. The Lifetime License MBAM must be somewhat different from the actual paid annual subscription but the protection aspects of MBAM are working OK here so I will keep using it.

C.H.

Disable Fast Startup. That will fix the issue for you.