Malwarebytes 1.50 Beta Released

[Airbot]

November 11, 2010

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.50 Beta is availabe. Changelog below.

   Information

New Features

We are very excited about these major improvements in Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.50. This version represents a complete overhaul of much of our functionality. Among the highlights are:

• Dramatically improved scan speed: up to 5 times faster.
• Dramatically improved stability of both the scanner and protection module (free and pro version, respectively).
• More responsive: program loads up to 3 times faster, and protection module has lower impact on system resources (pro version only).
• New internal detection algorithms enable detection of more real-world malware.

• You can now add files and folders to the ignore list manually.
• Ability to schedule and unschedule scans and updates from the command line (pro version only).
• Notifications of blocked malicious websites now include additional details such as type, port, and process on Windows Vista and higher.
• Dramatically improved flash scan (pro version only) -- determine whether a more in-depth scan is needed, in less than 10 seconds on many machines.
• One-touch easy-to-use option to keep protection up-to-date automatically (pro version only).
• "Warn if database is outdated by:" option now warns if the database is far out-of-date (7 days by default), including for protection (pro version only).

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.50 Public Beta Now Available

 

[Tews]

Thanks Aaron, downloading it now

 

[Dinesh]

Downloaded and installed. Thanks for the info Aaron.

 

[Airbot]

Seems to be quite a bit faster at that.

 

[Ciara]

Will Malwarebytes 1.50 Beta work along side Vipre ?, thank you for any advice

 

[Airbot]

The free version is only a manual scanner you would run a scan yourself. It doesn't have real time monitoring, so it should be just fine to have it downloaded, update it and to run a manual scan when you want, yes.

 

[Ciara]

Thank you Airbot for your help, I will download it now and try it

 

[mitchell64]

Seems to be quite a bit faster at that.

Quick scan is half the time on my laptop, CPU temps when running quick scan are a good 8 degrees Celsius cooler i am impressed

 

[Francis93]

Done installing! Thanks Aaron!

 

[G1LLY]

Thanks for this, just installed

 

[Phone Man]

It runs OK but I am getting Event Errors.



Went back to 1.46 and will wait for final.

From the Malwarebytes forum it was stated that this is a 32bit driver and should not run on a 64bit OS. I assume it is calling this driver in error. The same driver exists in 1.46 but is not being called so no errors.

Jim

 

[Airbot]

I get that also.

 

[Ciara]

Sorry to say but I had to uninstall Malwarebytes 1.50 Beta because I could not close it by clicking the Exit button, I had to close it from system tray, also had it stopping ?, anyway gone back to the normal free one.

I have a Icon I use for Malwarebytes (you may need to resize depending on what Icon application you use) but happy to share

 

[yowanvista]

This version(Pro) uses a lot of memory 100MB+

 

[G1LLY]

Uninstalled it as well as it crashed the first time I tried to scan.

 

[EchoX860]

Is there another/better Program like MBAM?

 

[malexous]

I haven't used MBAM in quite some time. Installed 1.50 Beta last night, updated and ran a quick scan.

No problems/errors or infections .

Is there another/better Program like MBAM?

http://www.sevenforums.com/security-basics/76173-whats-best-anti-malware.html

Beta's are meant to be used to find and report bugs. If you want to use MBAM, use the stable 1.46.

 

[EchoX860]

Installed, I wonder if I should use HitMan Pro as well.

 

[malexous]

I recommend using both. Nothing catches everything. Hitman Pro has some advantages over MBAM and vice versa.