So, I have been using Eest Smart Security for years now. I wanted the extra protection and found out Malwarbytes premium played real well with Eset. Well, I started hearing about Bitdefender and how great it was. It's hard for me to make the change, since I have grown to really trust eset, but I decided to give it a shot. The one major thing about it though was there is a lot of talk about how bitdefender doesn't play well with others. I never heard that about Eset. Bitdefender seems to keep beating out the competition, so I would like to give it a try, but if it doesn't play well with Malwarebytes, I may go back to Eset. So far, I was able to install Bitdefender with Malwarebytes premium already installed. It did complain about it though. Anyone have experience with Bitdefender while running Malwarebytes premium?
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While I've not personally tested Bitdefender alongside Malwarebytes, I do have experience using ESET and know that they do work well together. That said, I do know that we've got several users around the forums who use Bitdefender with Malwarebytes and if I recall correctly the only recent issue I heard of had to do with the web blocking component in Bitdefender sometimes needing to be disabled for the web protection in Malwarebytes to function, however it's been a while since I heard anyone mention it so it is possible that this has since been corrected.
The only advice that I would offer is to add the Malwarebytes executable files to the Bitdefender "Exclusions". Also, should you have to uninstall or repair Bitdefender, it is best to deactivate your Malwarebytes Premium licence, and uninstall it first. Once Bitdefender is reinstalled or repaired, then reinstall and activate your Malwarebytes Premium.
Hi folks, I know in the past there has been a controversy over using Malwarebytes with bitdefender, some say it's fine, others say not recommended. I have used the two together for about two years, since I ditched Kaspersky. A few weeks ago, on a pretty fast 2 year old computer with a SSD drive, I ran into my first problem. I was attempting to install the latest Windows 11 software and did so. For some reason, I never figured out, the computer crashed. I could not get the computer recovery to work,so I ended up having to reinstall Windows. I did so, and two days later my computer crashed again, so had to reinstall Windows again after completely wiping all data off of my drive (still reinstalling data with carbonite, over 550 G).
I never had notice of any malware from Bitdefender or Malwarebytes. I am wondering what caused the crashes. I have read that when two antivirus programs compete for the same space to fight invading malware, it can degrade the ability of both antiviruses, then if you had only one. So two questions:
(1) Are Malwarebytes and Bitdefender a good fit together, or should I Use only one or the other. Even if I don't notice the computer slowing down or having an issue, are the abilities of the two antiviruses compromised because of the way the antivirus programs compete with each other.
After reinstalling windows I did run diagnostics and everything seems good. I don't want to give up on either Bitdefender or Malwarebytes, but I will give up on one of them if I am better off than with both of them.
I have been running Bitdefender Total Security and MB Premium for many years. No issues, as long as you configure the appropriate exclusions in each program so that they play nicely in the same sandbox. In my humble opinion, running the two together enhances my computer security. You have to install Bitdefender products first. Bitdefender is highly territorial and will not install if it finds any other security solutions on your computer, other than Windows Defender. MB Premium is happy to get installed if BD is present. Make sure that you turn off, in the MB Settings, "Always register with the Windows Security Centre."
I run both together in Windows 11 as garioch7 describes after reading his post (thanks Garioch7 !) and have not noticed any problems or performance issues. I also backup my files to a Synology NAS and sync it with (Synology Drive ShareSync) another NAS I boot up just to sync to (then shutdown that node to keep it offline), do full system image backups with Macrium Reflect and keep a copy of the NAS and my backups offline on a good portable hard drive in a remote physical location/street address. Yes, that's expensive to do but once set up, it's easy to periodically backup everything. At a minimum, everyone should just at least have an offline image backup using reliable backup software. Multiple layers of malware protection is great if they compliment each other.
Good day yesterday after many moths decided to use the update which sat dormant on KIS 2019 to latest version 20.0.14.1085(g) but did not uninstall Malwarebytes as suggested and when my pc restarted I could not go online with any of my installed browsers and not thinking it was a compatibility problem spent a long time trying to fix it by uninstalling both Malwarebytes and KIS.
I now only have KIS 2020 installed but feel naked without the added protection from Malwarebyte and after reading this thread going to try and install Malearebytes and leave real time protection un ticked and hope I do not have the same problems as before failing that i will have to look online for the KIS 2019 and install that because it worked with no problems side by side with Malwarbytes.
Luminous, I agree with you 100%, they are two different applications for different needs, regardless of what Kaspersky wishes we to believe, MalwareBytes has protected me for years, as well as Kaspersky, just in different ways.
Update- I have uninstalled KIS 20 and reinstalled KIS 19 and now my pc is back to where it was before Kaspersky Internet Security 20 decide I could not run Malwarebytes together on the same PC so until the KIS issues a fix I will stay on version 19, thank you to Flood for the download link.
While I appreciate your arguments, I work in IT for a mid-size insurance company. We run three monitoring services, precisely because no one product can be excellent at everything. If the hackers manage to evade one service, there are backups to catch other angles or subversions.
I agree, but you cannot insure against everything. No antivirus guarantees 100% protection.
By installing several antivirus programs you can only do poorly. The main thing to follow the basics of security:
-center/preemptive-safety
Not to mention there has been several times, just this year, that Malwarebytes has block malicious access that Kaspersky didn't even notice. Only twice has Kaspersky stopped maliciousness that Malwarebytes didn't flag, in the entirety that I've had Kaspersky. I'll stick with running two services and my real experiences.
I am wondering if these two programs can coexist together. I have Malwarebytes Lifetime which I purchased before I purchased Kaspersky Total Security.
When I went I update my Kaspersky to the newest version it uninstalled my Malwarebytes with the message saying that it was incompatible software.
The version of Kaspersky I am using is: Kaspersky Total Security (build 20.0.14.1085c)
Providing you have a moderate technical capability and have patience and are willing to keep an open mind; and apply some mutual trust exclusions, it should be possible to get a working, smoother installation of Malwarebytes Premium 4 and the KTS with patch G or higher.
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I use Kaspersky Free as my main antivirus software. I also have the free version of Malwarebytes with no real-time scanning activated. Despite this Kaspersky Free keeps telling me to remove Malwarebytes so I went on the Malwarebytes website and added some file paths to the exclusion list in Kaspersky, basically every single one that i was able to exclude. This is the page I used from the Malwarebytes website: -us/articles/360038522974-Malwarebytes-for-Windows-v4-antivirus-exclusions-list. Even though I added all the exclusions, Kaspersky keeps telling me in the "recommended" tab that Malwarebytes should be uninstalled, whenever i contact technical support on Kaspersky team for answers they keep telling me it is incompatible with Kaspersky. Still, Malwarebytes themselves say that Malwarebytes is designed to run alongside other antivirus software. Is there something that I am doing wrong? I really need help on this.
Ok it sounds like Kaspersky Free and Malwarebytes will not automatically interfere with each other, rather it is just a warning to be wary of them possible colliding, I use Malwarebytes free version so the Real-Time protection for it is turned off so it should never interfere sounds like. I simply use it as an independent scanner sometimes just to check if Kaspersky missed anything with their scan. In your experience this should not be issue sounds like right? Also i tried adding the file path you listed as an exclusion but the folder in Kaspersky Lab returned 3 child folders for which to select with all of them having multiple items underneath them as well. I will show PNG image. If you want see more I can post video as well, but i think I don't even have to do anything since you say it is just a warning and not actual conflicting applications. Just let me know if I am wrong. Also I checked the incompatible applications with Kaspersky for windows and it does list Malwarebytes as one of them but the version it lists is version 3.5.1.2522 whereas the version i am currently using for Malwarebytes free is Malwarebytes version 4.6.8.311
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