80% off Malwarebytes Premium: 1 Year 1 Device R$35.10 (~NZ$11), 1 Year 5 Devices R$71.10 (~NZ$24) + More @ Malwarebytes

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LPars56 on 13/07/2023 - 14:44 store.malwarebytes.com (53 clicks)
Last edited 13/07/2023 - 16:48 by 1 other user

Malwarebytes is an anti-malware software that helps to protect devices from viruses, trojans, ransomware, and other malicious software. It is available for Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Android, and iOS. The link itself only has a 10% discount with a promo code. To get the full discount, follow the instructions:

Instruction:

• Click "Go to Deal"
• On the top right corner of the page Click on NZD, In the pop-up windows click Currency and select Brazilian Real. You must now see EN as the language and BRL as currency on the top right corner.
• From the Shopping Cart column, chose number of devices you want to protect. (I chose 5 to cover all mobiles and laptops in the house). 1 Device is 35 BRL (~11 NZD) and 5 Devices is 71 BRL (~24 NZD) for 1 year.
• Fill in the Address Column with your info. Don't chose Brazil as Country because that would require additional card info called CPF/CNPJ. I just selected NZ with no problem.
• Fill Card Info (I paid with Wise Card). Not sure if PayPal would work or not.

It is an auto renewal subscription, so you might want to cancel it before the end of one year (or just delete the virtual wise card). I initially did this process with Brazil VPN on, but then I realised it works even without VPN. This is my first time posting a deal here, please let me know if something is not quite right.

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  NovaAlpha on 13/07/2023 - 15:44

  +3

  Malwarebytes is OK, but I never really get the point of buying an antivirus. As someone who has worked in IT for many years and worked in various MSP companies, I perosnally think that spending money on 3rd party antivirus is a joke. 2 of the CTOs at my previous jobs both commented that 3rd party antivirus are pointless and one of the security consultants at my current job said the same thing as well.

  Windows Defender does a pretty good job already and it's free. It's pretty good on resource usage as well and just has better support and integration considering it's baked right into Windows and hooks into Azure and InTune for better monitoring and control. If you want, just get a Qualys agent installed on your device and make sure your patches are up to date and you're golden.

  As long as you don't go to dodgy sites, don't download and install random crap and know what you're doing, 3rd party antivirus are pointless in general. You can easily run things in sandbox environments if you really want to test out cracks/patches or whatever. Any.Run and VirusTotal are your friends. In fact, the average person typically just watches Netflix or Youtube or browse social media. Just install UBlock for them and the rest should be covered by Windows Defender.

  Unless you're someone like me who reverse engineer apps (especially cracks and patchers) and hack into things left and right and just do a lot of dodgy things in general, you shouldn't even be at risk of anything malicious attacking you and therefore needing an antivirus. Even at my level, I don't even use any 3rd party antivirus.

  What is more important is to have a good backup routine. Make sure you use a password manager like Bitwarden. Make sure your patches are up to date, have a good firewall / network setup and use 2FA. It's really not that hard and you don't have to be in IT to master these things.

  But hey, that's just my 2cents. Spend your money however you like.

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    Ruffdrafter on 13/07/2023 - 15:56

    I broadly agree windows defender should be sufficient for most people. Of the paid antivirus I think Malwarebytes is one of the better ones, I used the free trial a few years ago to remove some adware avast wouldn't detect.

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    Pars56 on 13/07/2023 - 16:10

    +1

    Thanks Chaoscreater. I appreciate your insights on antivirus software. I understand that based on your experience in IT, you have found that Windows Defender is a sufficient solution for your needs.

    However, I personally believe that there is value in having a third-party Anti-malwares (not necessarily Anti-virus) as Malwarebytes has a more comprehensive database of malware signatures and list of malicious websites. It was a deal that I found for myself and I thought would be good to share with fellow members.

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      NovaAlpha on 13/07/2023 - 19:04

      Hey OP. That's all good, I'm not bashing your post or anything.

      Regarding anti-malware, yes it's different to antivirus but at the end of the day they're all pretty much the same thing. Windows Defender actually does anti-malware as well, not just antivirus. Antivirus solutions nowadays do everything, from anti-keylogging to rootkit scanning to anti-malware to crypto-jacking and anti-botnet and everything else in between. There's not much point to get a dedicated solution at everything. There are also dedicated software firewall solutions as well if you really want to dig real deep at having extra protection, but all in all these apps just bog your system down.

      Best practice is to just have a dev environment, like a VM that you can use for all your testing. Spin up the VM in less than 20 seconds, do whatever testing you need. When you're done, restore to snapshot, no issues.

      The other issue with antivirus and antimalware solutions is that they always full behind year after year. Perhaps this year the highest ranked antivirus is e.g. Bitdefender, next year it's Kaspersky and the next year it's Trend Micro and whatever. They all fall behind and fail to detect the latest and greatest threats. It's always a never ending cat and mouse game of patching and updating the virus definitions, etc. So after you pay this for 5 years, you'd have to deal with finding another product or renewing it again. And that's assuming this app actually performs at the highest level among all the other competitors during the next 5 years.

      Also, if you do get a virus on your machine, it's a waste of time trying to remove it in my opinion. I can restore an entire image backup of my machine in less than 25 minutes. That's about 200GB of C:\ drive data restored. If a bad Windows Update broke something, or I've got a virus or whatever, I can just restore easily and everything is back to normal. I can rest assured knowing that it is in the exact same clean state as it was when I backed it up. But if I were to use an antivirus, chances are it might not do a good enough job at cleaning leftover stuff, or perhaps it might cause further issues. I've dealt with enough of these issues to know that it's almost always better and safer and quicker to just restore.

      I've also made my own viruses before (for research purposes) and digged a little bit into offensive security (red team) stuff. The stuff that happens in the scene is crazy and I'm completely out of my league. I know for sure that some of the antivirus aren't even patched or aware of these exploits out on the internet atm. So again, your safest bet is to make sure you have a really good (and clean) backup and have good routines to backup regularly.

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  pdevonporf on 13/07/2023 - 18:11

  Microsoft does a free malware removal tool (updated regularly) but quite often malware gets into your registry and cannot be removed even though the software said it had been removed or found.

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    nzmax on 13/07/2023 - 19:16

    Isn't it just built into windows security these days?

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      pdevonporf on 13/07/2023 - 19:57

      Yes, but if you suspect you've got malware (usually obvious) or just want to check it's quite a useful tool. Especially if you're fixing somebody else's computer and just want to confirm, before doing a complete reset and remove everything.