Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBAM) public beta 1 (build 054)

[hardhead]

It is finally here. The program you have been waiting for for months.

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBAM) public beta 1 (build 054)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.
250MHZ processor with at least 64mb of RAM.
Windows 2000, NT, XP, or Vista.
3MB of available free space on hard drive.
Internet access for updating definitions.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2050
http://www.malwarebytes.org/beta

[Rasheed187]

What´s so special about this tool? I doubt that it´s as good a regular AV scanner, any more details?

[hardhead]

Quote from author Marcin Kleczynski

-{ Quote: "MBAM uses a lot better, and safer, heuristics scanning. Once released it will feature extremely powerful malware extraction techniques. It is not an AntiVirus, it is an AntiMalware program. MBAM will also include extra tools that will help most users return their comptuer to a stable state. Some of these tools include a safe mode fixer and task manager enabled. MBAM already is capable of removing hooked and locked malware, certain rootkits, and even LSP embedded malware." }-

[tamdam]

if malware can figure out whether it is running inside an VM or nod32's heuristics or some other AV "emulator" then this one will eventually be vunerable too. Still, sounds interesting.