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However, we can report that we didn't see any BSODs in Windows 10 during our testing of 3.2. As a result, there wasn't a lot to distinguish the paid version from the free one. It's stable in Windows 10: With version 3.0, some users (us included) experienced seemingly random blue-screen errors in Windows 10 unless we disabled most or all of Malwarebytes' active scanning functions. With version 3.2, the company claims it has corrected some major issues, so let's take a look at how this revision stacks up.

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Whether you click its menu-bar icon or open the app itself, Scan Now is immediately presented as an option, which isn't always the case with other programs.Malwarebytes 3.0 was a major update when it arrived in December 2016 - and like many major updates, some aspects were a little rough, particularly stability within Windows 10.

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Malwarebytes for Mac Premium is a well-laid-out app that places scan buttons up front for ease of use. This is likely due to the program indexing the system and analyzing only files that have changed since the previous scan. Malwarebytes' full-scan completion time is a shockingly short 16 seconds, almost 3 hours less than Sophos' 2-hour and 56-minute time, and also shorter than middle-of-the-pack entrants like Kaspersky (41:20) and Norton (25:49). That's not as bad as McAfee AntiVirus Plus' 47% fall (the worst offender), although it wasn't as good as Sophos' 7% full-scan system hit. During full-system scans, the VLOOKUP test finished in an average of 4 minutes and 41 seconds, for a sizable performance dip of 31 percent. You would be more likely to notice the slowdowns created by Malwarebytes' active scans.

Still, this is overall great news for Mac users: Most of the time, you'll never notice that you've got antivirus software running.

Still, other antivirus products' passive system impacts ranged from 5% ( Sophos Home Premium) to zero percent (Bitdefender), placing Malwarebytes in the middle of the spectrum. That's a passive system hit of 2%, which may be hard to notice.

With Malwarebytes for Mac Premium installed on our MacBook, and no active scans running, the VLOOKUP test finished in an average of 3 minutes and 40 seconds, 5 seconds more than without any antivirus software installed. Our test machine was a 2017 MacBook Air with a 1.8-GHz Intel Core i5 CPU and approximately 54GB of data stored on a 128GB SSD. Malwarebytes for Mac Premium created a medium-size impact on system performance, which we assess by running our custom Excel VLOOKUP benchmark test that matches 60,000 names and addresses on a spreadsheet. Malwarebytes for Mac Premium: Performance and system impact

But if you're looking for Malwarebytes to keep someone else's system safe, and they're not tech-savvy, this may not be enough. Personally, I find that OK, as I don't need anything more, and all that other stuff always feels like overkill. That means it's missing the search-monitoring browser extensions you get with other solutions, the email-monitoring in Avast and the parental controls of Kaspersky. Malwarebytes for Mac Premium keeps things simple and standard, with a no-frills package that's focused on fighting malware. (Image credit: Malwarebytes) Malwarebytes for Mac Premium: Security and privacy features

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