While this is a good score, competitors like Norton and Bitdefender, have a perfect 100% malware detection rate. But the full disk scan detected 95% of malware (although it took about 3 hours, which is pretty long for a full disk scan). Once Malwarebytes completed the Threat Scan, it found around 76% of the files. Before installing Malwarebytes on my Windows device, I downloaded around 1,000 malicious files (viruses, trojans, spyware, etc.) to my test PC. When testing the scanner against malware samples, I got decent results. For example, Avira’s quick scan took about 1 minute on my computer, and Norton’s took just under 2 minutes. This is noticeably longer than competitors’ quick scans, which usually take anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes. Note that Malwarebytes doesn’t have a default full system scan option, so if you want to check your entire system for malware, you need to use the custom scan and select your C: drive from the available options (which is a little annoying!).ĭuring my tests, the Threat Scan took 9 minutes and 27 seconds to scan over 300,000 files on my device. Lets you pick any file or folder you want to scan (including the entire disk). Checks your memory and startup programs for active infections.
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