Solved Malwarebytes Question

[BrightBlessings]

A friend of mine ran the free version of malwarebytes and it showed they have 300+ infections. Anyway they told me that malwarebytes said it would only clean 100 of them or to buy the full version to clean them all. Does anyone know if would right? as I am interested
Thank you
Odin

 

[Golden]

Hi,

Thats incorrect - the detection and cleaning engine in the free version is the same as in the paid version.

The only difference between the two, is that the paid version:

- Has automatic definition updates
- IP blocker
- Scheduling ability

Apart from that, there is absolutely no difference between the two.

Regards,
Golden

 

[BrightBlessings]

Hi,

Thats incorrect - the detection and cleaning engine in the free version is the same as in the paid version.

The only difference between the two, is that the paid version:

- Has automatic definition updates
- IP blocker
- Scheduling ability

Apart from that, there is absolutely no difference between the two.

Regards,
Golden

That is what I thought and tried to tell them.They may have downloaded the paid version on a trial basis.
Thanks for the reply
Odin

 

[derekimo]

I cleaned over 700 nasties from my neighbors netbook with the free version..... and told him to quit clicking on things.

 

[Oaken]

I cleaned over 700 nasties from my neighbors netbook with the free version..... and told him to quit clicking on things.

You just beat my record...

Visited an ex-pat friend in Warsaw and cleaned 680+ bogeys- and I told him to quit using a PC!

 

[derekimo]

I cleaned over 700 nasties from my neighbors netbook with the free version..... and told him to quit clicking on things.

You just beat my record...

Visited an ex-pat friend in Warsaw and cleaned 680+ bogeys- and I told him to quit using a PC!

Yeah, when I saw the final number 745, I asked him what he does on his computer...he said "mostly Christian chat rooms" ....

 

[kado897]

Hi,

Thats incorrect - the detection and cleaning engine in the free version is the same as in the paid version.

The only difference between the two, is that the paid version:

- Has automatic definition updates
- IP blocker
- Scheduling ability

Apart from that, there is absolutely no difference between the two.

Regards,
Golden

The paid version also has real time protection not just IP blocking.

 

[Golden]

Yep, correct - thanks Kado, I had fogotten that one.

 

[kado897]

 

[A Guy]

The differences here. A Guy

 

[kado897]

I've not seen that page before. I certainly sums it up. I have been running Pro for several months along with N360. They seem to go well together.

 

[MrPenguin]

A friend of mine ran the free version of malwarebytes and it showed they have 300+ infections. Anyway they told me that malwarebytes said it would only clean 100 of them or to buy the full version to clean them all. Does anyone know if would right? as I am interested
Thank you
Odin

these "infections" are tracking cookies, i bet like 99% of the incetions were tracking cookies. Tracking cookies are cookies of course, but they have a different function than normal cookies. The joke is: Often they are not even there to spy u, nope, they come from websites yep^^ For many people websites are money making machines, not only shops, u wouldnt believe what a streaming site making money through millions of clicks EVERY day through advertizing. However the owners or masters of the website often use that cookies, to see what u done (on the web only, no further information will be revealed), but: where u came from,what u type or typed in, how long u stay on the website, which products or videos u watched etc. This is used to actually keep the business rolling, with that information and statistics from it, they can easily change theyre website to what the public prefers the most, of course money making is behind this.

So in these terms, ecxcept for rare entrys like alexa, which every windows user has, actually a spy registry entry from windows, try to delete it, undeletable, it automatically replaces, windows uses this one to spy u out actually. The only tool i ever saw detecting and REMOVING it was spybot, thats why it says use at ur own risk^^ This thing, despite the origin, can remove any entry, how i dont even know today to be honest^^ But spybot can do that, a genius tool if u ask me.

But 99% of all tracking cookies are harmless, simple to get ur surfing behaviour on the owners website, thats all. Theres absolutely no need to worry about that^^ Spyware ud need to worry about, cause those was a manually set up tool to get direct information from u. Ad aware to, it to also scannes tracking cookies, if u run that u ought to find them to, but u know whats the easiest way?^^ Delete ur internet tracks, or shred them with a tool like ccleaner, they are gone like all other cookies to^^ But they will be instantly replaced when u revisit that website of course.

Well if u want to get rid of them, the only way i did was: Switching to comodo as firewall^^ No joke, this thing is so tough obviously, it would even block any tracking cookies for me, rly from a firewall for windows i cant ask more^^

 

[yowanvista]

A friend of mine ran the free version of malwarebytes and it showed they have 300+ infections. Anyway they told me that malwarebytes said it would only clean 100 of them or to buy the full version to clean them all. Does anyone know if would right? as I am interested
Thank you
Odin

these "infections" are tracking cookies, i bet like 99% of the incetions were tracking cookies. Tracking cookies are cookies of course, but they have a different function than normal cookies. The joke is: Often they are not even there to spy u, nope, they come from websites yep^^ For many people websites are money making machines, not only shops, u wouldnt believe what a streaming site makeing money through millions of clicks EVERY day through advertizing. However the owners or masters of the website often use that cookies, to see what u done (on the web only, no further information will be revealed), but: where u came from,what u type or typed in, how long u stay on the website, which products or videosu watched etc. This is used to actually keep the business rolling, with that information and statistics from it, they can easily change theyre website to what the public prefers the most, of course money making is behind this.

So in these terms, ecxcept for rare entrys like alexa, which every windows user has, actually a spy registry entry from windows, try to delete it, undeletable, it automatically replaces, windows uses this one to spy u out actually. The only tool i ever saw detecting and REMOVING it was spybot, thats why it says use at ur own risk^^ This thing, depsite the origin, can remove any entry, how i dont even know today to be honest^^ But spybot can do that, a genius tool if u ask me.

But 99% of all tracking cookies are harmless, simple to get ur surfing behaviour on the owners website, thats all. Theres absolutely no need to worry about that^^ Spyware ud need to worry about, cause those was a manually set up tool to get direct information from u. Ad aware to, it to also scannes tracking cookies.

Well if u want to get rid of them, the only way i did was: Switching to comodo as firewall^^ No joke, this thing is so tough obviously, it would even block any tracking cookies for me, rly from a firewall for windows i cant ask more^^

Malwarebtes doesn't detect or remove any tracking cookies

 

[kado897]

A friend of mine ran the free version of malwarebytes and it showed they have 300+ infections. Anyway they told me that malwarebytes said it would only clean 100 of them or to buy the full version to clean them all. Does anyone know if would right? as I am interested
Thank you
Odin

these "infections" are tracking cookies, i bet like 99% of the incetions were tracking cookies. Tracking cookies are cookies of course, but they have a different function than normal cookies. The joke is: Often they are not even there to spy u, nope, they come from websites yep^^ For many people websites are money making machines, not only shops, u wouldnt believe what a streaming site makeing money through millions of clicks EVERY day through advertizing. However the owners or masters of the website often use that cookies, to see what u done (on the web only, no further information will be revealed), but: where u came from,what u type or typed in, how long u stay on the website, which products or videosu watched etc. This is used to actually keep the business rolling, with that information and statistics from it, they can easily change theyre website to what the public prefers the most, of course money making is behind this.

So in these terms, ecxcept for rare entrys like alexa, which every windows user has, actually a spy registry entry from windows, try to delete it, undeletable, it automatically replaces, windows uses this one to spy u out actually. The only tool i ever saw detecting and REMOVING it was spybot, thats why it says use at ur own risk^^ This thing, depsite the origin, can remove any entry, how i dont even know today to be honest^^ But spybot can do that, a genius tool if u ask me.

But 99% of all tracking cookies are harmless, simple to get ur surfing behaviour on the owners website, thats all. Theres absolutely no need to worry about that^^ Spyware ud need to worry about, cause those was a manually set up tool to get direct information from u. Ad aware to, it to also scannes tracking cookies.

Well if u want to get rid of them, the only way i did was: Switching to comodo as firewall^^ No joke, this thing is so tough obviously, it would even block any tracking cookies for me, rly from a firewall for windows i cant ask more^^

Malwarebtes doesn't detect or remove any tracking cookies

But most of the "infections" Norton boasts about clearing are. It's only in the latest version that it stopped flagging these as amber threats.

 

[kado897]

these "infections" are tracking cookies, i bet like 99% of the incetions were tracking cookies. Tracking cookies are cookies of course, but they have a different function than normal cookies. The joke is: Often they are not even there to spy u, nope, they come from websites yep^^ For many people websites are money making machines, not only shops, u wouldnt believe what a streaming site makeing money through millions of clicks EVERY day through advertizing. However the owners or masters of the website often use that cookies, to see what u done (on the web only, no further information will be revealed), but: where u came from,what u type or typed in, how long u stay on the website, which products or videosu watched etc. This is used to actually keep the business rolling, with that information and statistics from it, they can easily change theyre website to what the public prefers the most, of course money making is behind this.

So in these terms, ecxcept for rare entrys like alexa, which every windows user has, actually a spy registry entry from windows, try to delete it, undeletable, it automatically replaces, windows uses this one to spy u out actually. The only tool i ever saw detecting and REMOVING it was spybot, thats why it says use at ur own risk^^ This thing, depsite the origin, can remove any entry, how i dont even know today to be honest^^ But spybot can do that, a genius tool if u ask me.

But 99% of all tracking cookies are harmless, simple to get ur surfing behaviour on the owners website, thats all. Theres absolutely no need to worry about that^^ Spyware ud need to worry about, cause those was a manually set up tool to get direct information from u. Ad aware to, it to also scannes tracking cookies.

Well if u want to get rid of them, the only way i did was: Switching to comodo as firewall^^ No joke, this thing is so tough obviously, it would even block any tracking cookies for me, rly from a firewall for windows i cant ask more^^

Malwarebtes doesn't detect or remove any tracking cookies

LOl i see i dont use malwarebytes. but 300 entrys? this is then either a joke, false detects or tracking cookies, i never saw anything else gather entries in such an amount then tracking cookies.

This whole thing doesn't sound very much like malwarebytes to me.

 

[yowanvista]

Malwarebtes doesn't detect or remove any tracking cookies

LOl i see i dont use malwarebytes. but 300 entrys? this is then either a joke, false detects or tracking cookies, i never saw anything else gather entries in such an amount then tracking cookies.

This whole thing doesn't sound very much like malwarebytes to me.

It could be some kind of rogue AV

 

[kado897]

LOl i see i dont use malwarebytes. but 300 entrys? this is then either a joke, false detects or tracking cookies, i never saw anything else gather entries in such an amount then tracking cookies.

This whole thing doesn't sound very much like malwarebytes to me.

It could be some kind of rogue AV

My thought too.

 

[Golden]

A friend of mine ran the free version of malwarebytes and it showed they have 300+ infections.

these "infections" are tracking cookies, i bet like 99% of the incetions were tracking cookies

Since the nature of the infections aren't detailed by Odin, calling them tracking cookies is pure speculation at best. The infections may refer to specific file infections (ie. 300+ files have been infected) from a single, or possible multiple viruses/trojans.

Its entirely possibly to have 300+ file "infections", if thats what he is referring too.

Regards,
Golden

 

[Maccman]

Malwarebtes doesn't detect or remove any tracking cookies

LOl i see i dont use malwarebytes. but 300 entrys? this is then either a joke, false detects or tracking cookies, i never saw anything else gather entries in such an amount then tracking cookies.

This whole thing doesn't sound very much like malwarebytes to me.

If Malwarebytes has never been used on that particular computer before it would be very easy but whether they are malicious or not is another matter. I have Malwarebtyes and Ccleaner but when I tried Auslogics speedboost it came up with over 500 errors. About 99% were so called junk files.