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[MobilePCPhysician]

Malwarebytes Antimalware has a one time registration fee of 25 bucks with lifetime updates, and probably the best site blocking of any antimalware or AV product. Well worth the price.

I keep my clients in the free product. Is there a difference? They do use a virus detection program, such as Microsoft Security Essentials...

[slgrieb]

I keep my clients in the free product. Is there a difference? They do use a virus detection program, such as Microsoft Security Essentials...

Well, MBAM Pro does autoupdates, can be configured to do automatic scans (though this isn't the default setting), includes site blocking, and let's users do a Flash Scan which is essentially a scan of processes in memory.

I really like their site filtering. It's much more effective even than NOD32. Why I really started encouraging clients to go Pro, was that I just kept seeing too many outdated databases and old program versions. I like to sell service agreements, but lots of small businesses aren't interested. Home users? Oh, Hell no.

So if found myself in a lot of situations where a customer had an obvious infection, and would say something like "I run a weekly scan with my AV software and Malwarebytes, and everything is clean." Well, too often, I was seeing scenarios where MBAM's database was a year and a half out of date, and the program version was that outdated as well.