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

Well I am asking because I've never had it and am thinking about it.
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