And there is an army of fools who just cannot tell how useless it is. MBAM is pure garbage, but Malwarebytes has an astonishingly aggressive and effective marketing campaign in place. MBAM seemed to detect it, but crashed and could not remove it. Then I reset the VM and placed a well-known malware sample. I activated each of the two malicious applications, and saw the resultant network activity, and MBAM remained utterly silent, even after a manual scan. I purposely found and placed two malicious applications on the VM both were unknown to all scanners on VirusTotal, except for one generic detection (which was probably just a lucky guess). The installer was exactly the same for every Windows version. The silent install was designed to accommodate XP users, but it had the same effect in every Windows operating system from XP up to Windows 10. Gives a false sense of security.īottom Line: Years after trying to use MBAM to remove malware from a friend's computer-and finding it completely useless for that task-I set up a VM and gave it another shot. However, the audio driver skipped this step of prompting for approval (hence silently installing). To do that download MBAM Clean Removal tool then reinstall your Malware Bytes Anti Malware. Malwarebytes for Windows v3 support for Windows XP and Vista Malwarebytes is committed to continue support for Windows XP and Vista for as long as Microsoft allows us to. However, Malwarebytes 3.x, will be supported for the foreseeable future.
Wastes your time and (potentially) money. The problem is your Malware Bytes Anti Malware is corrupt and needs to be remove. Malwarebytes Version 4.0 no longer works on Windows XP or Windows Vista.