Malwarebytes for PCs
January 26, 2020

Malwarebytes for PCs

Barry Burd | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Malwarebytes

Individuals at the university have purchased Malwarebytes for their university-issued computers and for their own computers. We use it to protect our computers from malware.
  • Malwarebytes catches some malware apps that other security programs don't catch.
  • The user interface is easy to understand.
  • Malwarebytes used to be available for one-time purchase. Now the premium version is available only for yearly subscription.
  • Occasionally, Malwarebytes misses a suspicious application that other security programs catch.
  • Worry-free use of my computer.
  • More time to do real work because there's no time spent managing Malwarebytes.
It's difficult to make a fair comparison because I use Bitdefender on a Mac rather than a PC. Bitdefender finds many suspicious emails that it can't remove or quarantine, so I have to remove them manually. Malwarebytes doesn't do that.

Do you think Malwarebytes delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Malwarebytes's feature set?

Yes

Did Malwarebytes live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Malwarebytes go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Malwarebytes again?

Yes

Malwarebytes is well suited for protecting an individual PC. (I haven't tried the Mac version.) Malwarebytes is not suitable for computers that belong to an organization where users are compelled to install other security software. Conflicts between Malwarebytes and other security software can slow down a computer and possibly cause other problems.