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Many years ago, installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware dramatically reduced the amount of on-site technical support calls for my well-meaning but too trusting ("I
by wallflower 10y ago
Many years ago, installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware dramatically reduced the amount of on-site technical support calls for my well-meaning but too trusting ("I just clicked on it") parents. This was before I was able, with the help of my brother-in-law, to convert them to Apple/Mac.
Is Malwarebytes Anti-Malware still the gold standard for Windows Malware protection? What is the gold standard for Windows virus protection now?
- maxerickson 10y agoIt never was. The stuff from Microsoft seems less fraught than the rest.
- FreeFull 10y agoThe stuff from Microsoft unfortunately misses a large amount of malware.
- Afforess 10y agoThe gold standard is now Apple MacOs or Linux. I've converted my parents over to Apple systems and no longer have to do any support for them, Apple products "just work". Worth the premium in saved support, in my book. I use Ubuntu as my main OS, personally.
- yuhong 10y agoTo be honest, Mac OS X do have things like Gatekeeper.
- shortstuffsushi 10y agoDo you mean MacKeeper? GateKeeper is Apple's software that prevents you from installing non-verifed apps, MacKeeper is (from what I can tell, haven't installed it or looked at the site) spamware.
- matt_wulfeck 10y agoI would argue that the gold standard is now a chromeOS laptop.
- yuhong 10y agoI think they recently are beginning to do Anti-Ransomware, though have no idea how good it is.
- newjersey 10y agoHow does a ransom ware get activated? Did it always require a user to open a file like an executable (or a word document in unsafe mode) or are they sophisticated enough that simply downloading it will make sure it exploits some vulnerability in the browser or the OS?
- yuhong 10y agoThe former for the most part.