Latest Version of Malwarebytes

HitmanPro 3 - SurfRight

It's free for scanning, but not for cleaning (except for a free trial period when/if needed)

A second opinion scanner to use after MBAM free?

Hitman Pro gets my vote but also I make regular use of:

Emsisoft Emergency Kit

It's highly configurable.

Microsoft Security Scanner

On demand scanner that expires after 10 days and needs to be downloaded each time it's used.

Emco Malware Destroyer

Lightning fast on demand scanner.

My personal favorite:

UVK

Contains built in scanners but you can also add as many third party scanners as you like and run them.

Ghost buster :)

Yes well there is a host of oncall ones the ones I give people are MBAM SuperAntispyarwe and ADWCleaner which I find pretty effective, I do like the Emsisoft and Herdprotect as extras/ plus ther eis amile of stuff here Probably the Best Free Security List in the World - Part I so many horses for so many courses:)

ICit2lol said:

so many horses for so many courses:)

I asked specifically about opinions on a substitute for MBAM free not things like ADWCleaner. Which one would you consider worthy of a "Lastest Version of xxx" thread to.

Substitute, or next best? I think MBAM is exemplary. Next on my list is Superantispyware, then Emsisoft. But it's like asking what's best after CCleaner. CCleaner (and MBAM) are still the head of the class

A Guy

mjf said:

ICit2lol said:

so many horses for so many courses:)

I asked specifically about opinions on a substitute for MBAM free not things like ADWCleaner. Which one would you consider worthy of a "Lastest Version of xxx" thread to.

A Guy said:

Substitute, or next best? I think MBAM is exemplary. Next on my list is Superantispyware, then Emsisoft. But it's like asking what's best after CCleaner. CCleaner (and MBAM) are still the head of the class

A Guy

There is no best, only the right tool for the task at hand.

That is like asking what the best antivirus is....

Any secondhand scanner will do, its called a second hand scanner as it is giving you another opinion.

Going off the fact that malwarebytes is antimalware, not strictly antispyware like superantispyware or toolbar/spyware hunter like adwcleaner, I suggest looking into something like the following: (none being the "best")

-hitman pro
-herdprotect
-uvk
-emsisoft

They are comparative to what malwarebytes might looks for; but of course nothing will ever be a silver bullet. And each company has different heuristics and definitions/methods.
And of course, some of the tools mentioned are not for the faint of heart. They are certainly not a scan and remove anything found kind of thing. Arguably no program is like that.

Have fun looking, or grab them all :)

Well spyware, antivirus or whatever - call it what you will etc etc it is all malware to me just a different names for a different sorts of attack / intrusion.

I think personally this is turning into a pedantic and nit picking exercise and we should all agree to share what knowledge we have collectively and not just pin it to any specific type of malicious software.

This forum is after all like someone said the other day a team effort and we cannot agree with each other that there are ratbags out there wanting to disrupt or make out lives a misery by intruding into our or anyone else's machines and share what we advise people to do then it is a poor show as far as I am concerned. I know that everyone has their own particular likes and dislikes but it should not be made its some sort of playground activity to prove that anyone knows better than anyone else.

There is no infallible anti malware program and we should all agree at least on that - no matter what the survey people put out and in my mind the best AV is sitting in front of the keyboard.

andrew129260 said:

There is no best, only the right tool for the task at hand.

That is like asking what the best antivirus is....

Talk about sitting on the fence and not answering the question. I was clearly asking for opinions.
Ok let's be specific:
Functionality: What MBAM FREE provides (in principle).
Operation/installation: No major problems as outlined above in the issues reported by posters plus reasonable speed definition file updates.
Substitutes: What's the next best option in your opinion.

Maybe the next advice you give generally should be
"grab them all"