![]() ![]() ![]() The free version of MalwareBytes became a trial version for a new commercial version of MalwareBytes. However, MalwareBytes changed drastically at some point. So the company isn't being entirely honest. You can't look for a lot of malware that way. A lot of back and forth revealed that it looks for some malware beyond the adware that AdwareMedic looked for, but that it doesn't look inside any software at all, it only looks for specific file names in specific places on your Mac. Way too fast for it to be doing a comprehensive scan for all malware. They advertised it as a comprehensive anti-virus product, but suspiciously it only took a minute or two to do a scan. The MalwareBytes folks bought the rights to AdwareMedic (and hired Thomas Reed), and used it as the basis for a free Macintosh version of MalwareBytes. It was a very useful product, and Thomas Reed is a superhero for creating it and giving it away for free. The product originated as AdwareMedic, a free product from Thomas Reed that was only really designed to look for Adware. ![]()
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