Malwarebytes vs 2000 Malware

Malwarebytes is one of the members of our annual Mal X programme so they receive additional test reports and data from us. However, all public tests are conducted fully independently with no interference.

[FletcherCat]

Personally I'd rather have a few false positives with better protection. False positives are annoying, but actual malware slipping through can be catastrophic.

[valakivalakifalvai]

Finally, these seem to be back... hope more will next year

[SooonWukong]

Personally I think that a few false positives are fine if the detection rate is this high, but I admit it can get annoying and Malwarebytes did get annoying for me since it kept flagging most Visual Novels I installed

[samuraiwarriorsunite]

It's nice to see Malwarebytes perform so well. I bought a copy of the program way back when the company offered a lifetime license for about 20 bucks. I'm glad I did because I've noticed the annual license fee steadily go up in the past few years.

[StereoMadnessss]

I remember a Malwarebytes test someone did a bit more than a year ago that got less than a 70% detection ratio. I thought that Malwarebytes was gone, but the 98% detection ratio is great to see after that time.

[alanmagic]

Finally, these antivirus tests come back!
Would really love to see more of these~
These tests were fun to watch for some unknown reasons., and they were the reasons I subscribed to this channel long ago.

[androcarot]

Please continue to do all the AVs with this test. Awesome vids

[FerPlays]

I would rather have the inconvenience of false positive rather then have more relaxed protection and potentially have a higher chance of letting malware through. Can’t wait to see more of your videos in 2024, Happy New Year!

[omarvalera]

Awesome to see Malwarebytes ! I wonder how Sophos Home Premium will do on this test. Happy New Year!

[kratzeni]

I think it would make more sence for comparison to do the test for all AVs with the exact same Malware samples. Ofcause all the tests have do be done on the same day to prevent cloud detection.
Also what happened to the promise of testing all main AVs and making a new AV tier list by the end of the year? Has this been delayed or canceled?

[russellhltn]

As a thought, rather than running a "second opinion" scan, what about cataloging the files with a hash and comparing before and after? Right now, you're having to trust that the second opinion will catch everything the test scan missed.

[thomasstambaugh]

It might be worth mentioning that the false positive and false negative rate is a tradeoff -- it is not possible to have both at 0. I strongly prefer false positives to false negatives, especially for malware. I've been using MWB for years and I'm glad to see that it continues to perform well under testing.

[sebas]

I would prefer having a few false positives with a better detection since it isn't hard to exclude safe files

[Soul.]

Also great content/Community and your discord server has helped me multiple times to remove viruses and stuff, And fixing problems
edit: Thanks Leo for liking my comment

[justwatching]

Thanks for this. False positives are the cost of good protection. I prefer that than lower detection.

[CedroCron]

I use Malwarebytes for family members. I'd much prefer false positives and heuristic flagging and having them call me to remote into their computer to check on it for them, rather than spending hours fixing their computer when they get some sort of infection.

[DianaBell_MG]

Back when I did computer clean up full time, I loved Malwarebytes, had a reseller account even. Good to know it's still doing the good fight.

[BeesCantSwim]

Thank you for the video. This may have made me make a decision on what to use. I was thinking Malwarebytes or E-set.

[ASimpleBall]

Thank you for these videos. Very helpful information! Can you do Sophos next please

[TheTrueMissingLink]

For a second I thought the title meant "2000's era" malware, but this is also good. I wonder if there is any modern antivirus program that cannot detect old/deprecated viruses and their variants? I'm sure there's at least a few, but it would be interesting to see what would happen.