MBAM is pure garbage, but Malwarebytes has an astonishingly aggressive and effective marketing campaign in place. MBAM seemed to detect it, but crashed and could not remove it. Then I reset the VM and placed a well-known malware sample. I activated each of the two malicious applications, and saw the resultant network activity, and MBAM remained utterly silent, even after a manual scan. I purposely found and placed two malicious applications on the VM both were unknown to all scanners on VirusTotal, except for one generic detection (which was probably just a lucky guess). Gives a false sense of security.īottom Line: Years after trying to use MBAM to remove malware from a friend's computer-and finding it completely useless for that task-I set up a VM and gave it another shot. Wastes your time and (potentially) money.
