On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:03:18 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:59:38 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "sf" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >> > On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 02:53:05 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> >> > > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> "Alan Holbrook" > wrote in message
> >> >> . 3.30...
> >> >> > Dave Smith > wrote in news:sE4yt.5469
> >> >> > :
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> In a recent thread on malware someone recommended Malwarebytes.
> >> >> > I
> >> >> >> downloaded it and ran it.It found something in my wife's
> >> >> > profile, and
> >> >> >> she had previously had an incident of one of her accounts
> >> >> > sending out
> >> >> >> emails to her contacts. What a coincidence that two days before
> >> >> > my trial
> >> >> >> period ended all my email contacts got suspicious emails with an
> >> >> >> attachment.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I've been using the free version of Malwarebytes for years with
> >> >> > nary a problem.. I'd look somewhere else for your villain...
> >> >>
> >> >> Me too. But then recently it required daughter and I to buy the Pro.
> >> >> No
> >> >> biggie. It wasn't expensive.
> >> >>
> >> > Are you saying you had to buy it because you got a bug or because the
> >> > trial version ran out? If it was the end of your 30 day trial of the
> >> > full version, you could have selected the free one.
> >>
> >> The free one ended. I'd had the free one for years! It had been taken
> >> off
> >> by...Norton? Carbonite? I can't remember now. I had some problem with
> >> one
> >> of their programs. They took over my computer by remote and I watched in
> >> horror as they took off the Malwarebytes. Said it was in conflict with
> >> their service. Then a few days later, I got a virus that disabled my
> >> Norton. Had to take it to the shop. And what did they put on there to
> >> find
> >> it? Yep! Malwarebytes! Then at some point later (can't remember when),
> >> my
> >> trial ran out and I had to buy. Same thing happened with my daughter's
> >> computer. My brother freaked when I told him this and he said that he
> >> thought the Pro version that we bought was a scam. Doesn't seem to be at
> >> all. Perhaps the old version could be used for free for a long time?
> >> But
> >> this one not?
> >>
> >
> > No idea. I used Malwarebytes for a long time, changed computers and
> > didn't install it for a long time. Then I installed it again, but
> > there is no difference other than the one I noted in another post. I
> > thought my trial period ran out yesterday, but I just ran a flash
> > scan and it seems to still be doing that for me - so I have no idea
> > what the real difference is at this point in time.
>
> What is a flash scan?
>
If you have to ask, then you didn't use Malwarebytes and you have no
idea what it really is that you're complaining about.

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