Advice Request Using Malwarebytes Premium with Avast Free Antivirus?

[Raffaele]

Hi everyone
I would like to use malwarebytes premium with Avast free (aggressive mode)
Are there conflict problems or do they work well together?
Should I disable real-time protection on malwarebytes?

 

[AlanOstaszewski]

Well, I don't think Malwarebytes is so good now. My recommendation would be Malwarebytes as second opinion scanner.
If you want to try this combination anyway: Exclusions for Avast users this link should help you to set the exclusions.

 

[Raffaele]

Well, I don't think Malwarebytes is so good now. My recommendation would be Malwarebytes as second opinion scanner.
If you want to try this combination anyway: Exclusions for Avast users this link should help you to set the exclusions.

Why MB is not good now?

 

[Eddie Morra]

Avast Free and Malwarebytes Premium should work fine (depending on the configuration) but there's no need to overlap protection.

1. You only need to enable real-time protection for one of them at a time - that is more than sufficient.
2. You only need to enable web protection for one of them at a time - that is more than sufficient.
3. You may experience conflicts (which could go unnoticed until the worst possible timing) with Avast's Behavior Shield component and Malwarebytes' Anti-Exploit component.

If you're trying to use both of them for web protection as well, a better alternate idea would be to use Avast's Web Shield in real-time and to accompany web filtering through the Malwarebytes Browser Extension (which is free).

If you're not using Avast's Behaviour Shield component, then you may be interested in leaving Malwarebytes Anti-Malware enabled in real-time for the Anti-Exploit only. I do not recommend trying to use both of these alongside each other though, because as someone who has personally looked into both of them, there's definitely a big chance for conflict (due to how both of them work internally).

As mentioned already, make sure you look into Exclusions for obvious reasons.

The easiest solution would be to use Avast Free with Aggressive Mode enabled in real-time and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware as an on-demand scanner.

 

[spaceoctopus]

Malwarebytes Prenium with WD offers very good protection. I would not add Avast. But if you want to install Avast free with MB prenium, it's a good combo.

 

[ForgottenSeer 55474]

Hello, I have Bitdefender Total Security+Malwarebytes Premium, with out any problems at all.
I also have Heimdal Premium+Voodoo-Shield Pro,again with out any errors at all.
My OS is Windows 10 Home 1809.

 

[harlan4096]

All those products in the same system? that's seems an extreme overkill...

 

[ForgottenSeer 55474]

Yes harlan4096 I know,and that is not all,I also have Windows Defender scan the system from time to time.:emoji_innocent:

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

Hello, I have Bitdefender Total Security+Malwarebytes Premium, with out any problems at all.
I also have Heimdal Premium+Voodoo-Shield Pro,again with out any errors at all.
My OS is Windows 10 Home 1809.

I'm sorry but this is a textbook example of security obsessive compulsive disorder. You are in effect, actually REDUCING your security with all of that stuff installed. Considering the bloat and bugs of Bit Defender alone, I can imagine this system must be potatoed pretty badly.

Heimdal+VoodooShield is actually the only two things you need and they won't add any weight to the system. Heimdal updates your stuff, provides DNS and Rebind protection, decent web filtration and some network attack channel protection. Voodooshield (Always On) is your Anti-EXE, Exploit Protection and everything else. What more do you need? It would be virtually impossible to infect such a system even with extreme ignorance.

Less is more. Wasting money on stuff, bogging down systems and all of that do nobody any favors. The average joe is sufficiently protected by any competent antivirus suite, an adblocker extension on their browser, a decent NAT router setup properly, and a secured DNS forwarder on it. Anything more is really just stacking junk on junk. The average joe doesn't even have the most attacked vectors! SSH, RDP forwards, Microsoft Office installed w/Macro's enabled. Local SMTP server, or even a local email client.