malwarebytes free offer

[meooo]

Well, I did the standard update on malwarebytes yesterday, and they have a free 14 day trial of the bought version...so being pretty tight I accepted it on my laptop and the pc. What a mistake that was.
This morning laptop would start up but not run any programmes or shut down...had to remove the battery....thought it was a conflict with AVG....until I found the pc was the same (no AVG) Laptop is on windows7, pc on vista. I managed to un-install malwarebytes from both and harmony is restored, so re-downloaded it to pc, but rejected the trial offer and even thats ok now. So be warned, dont accept free trials

[Frenchfarmer]

Zone Alarm = £30 per year and Tune up Utilities is about the same per year.
If you have both of them you can relax. ( Once you have got the little B!!!!!ds to behave!)

But seriously folks... for £60 per year and a little bit of tearing hair and banging head on keyboard, during setup, I've had no probs for several years.
All three Computers locked and secure.
So far.

[adyclemo]

I use malewarebytes my self and find it an excellent piece of kit. There is a fake version going round and it sounds like that is what you have downloaded. Malwarebytes don't pop up with updates

[snapper]

Norton Internet Security (3 PC Version)... 29.99 for a year. Simples, used it for years and never had any problems.

[meooo]

If you visit their website, they are proudly announcing "Free 14 day trial offer for all users".... it came in with thier normal everyday update. When you go and make a clean (new) download it comes with the trial offer too, if you dont accept it there's no problem.

[adyclemo]

The free trial is what i use, its an excellent piece of kit for scanning with and used inconjuction with others like superantispyware, ccleaner etc will remove just about anything.

As a live scanner/protector then no as it dont auto update, norton/kaspersky etc are for that.