There is also MalwareBytes Anti Rootkit. I have used it for years. MWB Chameleon is cool too, for use when a virus won't allow you to install/run regular MalwareBytes. It's a portable MWB disguised as Firefox, etc.

Good post, Doc.

I'm one of those using all 3.  MWB Premium 2, MBAE & MBAR.  In addition to Bitdefender Free & their antiransomware beta.  Not yet sure how I'm going to proceed.

Daiwa-

As for MWB 3.0 with or w/o BD and its antiransomware... 

Factually we can't know how they stack up against one another just yet as far as I know, but all these supposedly 'objective tests' seem to come up with different results depending, I suppose, on whether they use the same threats...so I don't know how to eat these.

In the Malwarebytes Forums, I did find this thread...

https://forums.malwarebytes.org/topic/15746-free-malwarebytes-anti-malware-vs-other-free-antispyware-scanners/

Good post. Read the link you posted. Been using BD for many years and never had a problem. Still have almost 5 months left on BitDefender so I have time to learn if this can replace it or not. It is less money for sure.

That forum thread is 7 years old, Doc.

And/but Thanks for the post, BTW.

I've been 'rationalizing' when it comes to AV/Malware, etc.  I'd recently renewed my Kaspersky Total Security for 2 more years on three thingies...so I'm pretty much covered.  The 'lesser' machines just have ye olde Comodo ... and aren't even fired up all that often.

Note that the antimalware scan is dramatically faster in MBAM 3.0; Hyper Scans take less than a minute on my desktop and a Threat Scan only 12 minutes.

^ I neglected to talk about that as the post was more about what has changed in the organization of the software under one roof...but your point is well taken, Victechnical. 

incidentally... it interferes with emet (well.. anti-exploit part). it crashed my firefox earlier upon installation - the trial version (aka all the components) is activated immediately as opposed to asking if you want to activate the trial during thte installation process.

you can deactivate the trial prematurely (no idea if it can be taken up again in future)

Not a huge problem. Why have EMET at all? If you have the anti-exploit in MBAM and btw, MS is no longer going to support EMET (https://redmondmag.com/articles/2016/11/03/microsoft-ending-emet-security-tool.aspx) 

Also it doesn't appear to be as effective as one would hope, as well: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/drive-by-exploits-pushing-ransomware-now-able-to-bypass-microsoft-emet/

emet is free. mbae was free. integrated mb 3 isn't. ghacks says you can re-install the old mbae after you install mb 3... if you can find the old installer. also mentioned some perpetual beta version of mbae in future.

alas. no reason for me to use mbae so far, and whilst i know emet will be discontinued next year, i'll cross that bridge when it comes to that.

i only ever use mbam to manually scan once in a while.

if emet and mbae does similar things, logically if emet can be bypassed, so can mbae.

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turns out the free version of mbae was limited to certain browsers and programs.. probably why i didn't bother looking at it. will see next year.

Tried out the beta and had the same problem. For whatever reason it froze my machine. Did a reboot and uninstalled it. Then I reinstalled the present version. I'll wait till they work out the gremlins.