F.a.o Buenochico. Malwarebytes Isssues

[piggynose]

I took your advice when it wasnt doing its job properly, uninstalled it, and reinstalled it. remembering to untick the box at the end of the download. anyway when i tried to use it to remove many viruses, it only removed a fraction of them, why?
thanx in advance

[VHG]

Viruses and Malware are not the same thing.

Malware is Malicious Software which is not the same as a virus.

Anti-virus gets rid of viruses.

Anti Malware (Malwarebytes for example) gets rid if malware.

Some combined security suites get rid of both.

[Old_Geezer]

Malwarebytes isn't really for viruses, it's for "nasties" that aren't considered bad enough to be grouped with the viruses. Your normal AV takes care of the "real" viruses.

I think you could supply more info on what happened and what didn't get removed and how you know.

[mxyzptlk]

I believe Malwarebytes doesn't remove viruses, only malware. For virus removal try something like Avast as I assume you have no antivirus program installed.

[piggynose]

sorry for not using the right technical words, i really meant to say malware.

[Buenchico]

A lot of what Malwarebytes finds relates to 'potential threats', rather than to actual immediate ones.

For example, you might download the installation file for a program which (during the installation process) will offer you lots of unwanted extras. If you don't actually run that installation file, you won't get the 'extras'. Similarly, if you take care to deselect any pre-ticked boxes when you run the installation file (just as you did with Malwarebytes itself), you won't get the 'extras'.

However Malwarebytes sees that the installation file contains PUPs (= 'potentially unwanted programs'), and flags up that fact, but it can't actually remove them because they're embedded into a file which you might really need.

So just because Malwarebytes identifies the presence of PUPs (etc), it doesn't mean that there's an immediate threat. Just keep running it, say, once per fortnight and everything will be fine.

[piggynose]

thanx once again chris