Malwarebytes for Business now replaces Antivirus (update: now for Home users as well)

[Ranulf]

Norton is good again? Wonders never cease. I think it was almost 20 years ago when they had an incident where they forgot to update their security/certificates and thus I had slowdowns where it took a couple of minutes to open MS Word or 60 seconds to get a dialog box on right click of a file in windows.

That's really odd; have you contacted Malwarebyte's tech support about it?

Nah, it hasn't bothered me that much to spend time on their forums about it, other than the icon telling me it needs to check for updates.

 

[mikeymikec]

Norton is good again?

If you like cryptic error messages for which the official advice is always "reinstall Norton", sure.

 

[alan1476]

Does it block ransom ware? MBAM Premium does. The free version does not.

Absolutely, the Premium version has Ransomware Protection.

 

[bakshe]

This is interesting:

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwa...-generation-antivirus-replacement-businesses/

I'll be trying this out at a couple of small businesses I service (both the server-based version & the cloud-based version) to see how it fares & how it compares to traditional A/V's like Kaspersky & Symantec.

Note that this is a different product from the consumer version. Basic viz chart from their twitter:

Malwarebytes constantly evolving and moving forward. Since their initial product was good, they just kept improving it until a point of expansion. Probably would go blind trust when it comes to them.