Can SAS and MBAM run together ?

Hi,
I bought yesterday SAS and MBAM, those tools are really impressive. Congrats to their developpers !

At the next reboot, the system hangs up, with the SAS splash screen blocked. MBAM is running in the background.
When I disabled Real time protection and First chance prevention in SAS, all is ok.

Can I use together in real time or should I choose only one of them ?
Is the 1st chance prevention option faulty ?

Thank you guys in advance for your precious help/

Sincerely,
Mack

 

Both can be used together (exclude MBAM folders in SAS). What is your antivirus solution? Also exclude both from your AV.

 

Back when I had Vista SAS would always hang at boot if real time protection was enabled. I finally just uninstalled it.

Why do you want to run them together? Has there been some recent improvement to the SAS real time protection? SAS is good for on demand scans and removing malware but I am yet to see any test results showing SAS with competent real time protection. Maybe something changed.

 

Thanks for your reply boyfriend.
I'll use ESS or NIS2011 but it is installed yet since it's a fresh install.

 

Hi acr1965,
If I'm right, you advices me not to use SAS for real time protection. But I don't know if it has improved or not. So, MbAM should be enough ?

 

Enough is relative to the rest of your set up and your comfort level. But I think that whatever is covered by MBAM alone will be about the same as what's covered in the MBAM+SAS combo.

 

Thanks for this reply.
Does it mean it is useless to use them together ?
Can I use MBAM with Eset or Norton ?

 

I run them both with AVG and CIS-AV disabled.It happened to me once SAS's startup screen to be frozen.Solution?I have untick the option "show splash screen at startup" in SAS preferences.It was annoying anyway.

 

Running Both SAS and MBAM Real-Time?
I don't find it a good idea to run two (2) Scanners Real-Time.
Run one Real-Time (MBAM) + the other On-Demand (SAS).

Most users prefer and AV Real-Time with:
-MBAM On-Demand
And/OR
-SAS On-Demand

 

This is a trick I'll try.
ThX

 

I thought it was possible since layered defense is an option.
It is the same for an AV engine and MBAM ? Say using ESS with it.

Sincerely,
Mack

 

Mack I run NIS2011 & MBAM realtime on a couple of different 64bit machines. No slow downs or problems what so ever. I don't believe it would be a problem to add SAS to this mix and use as a on-demand only option.

 

Whatever main security product you choose, remember to made exclusions. Although both can run file, I recommend MBAM only along with main AV. It is working very well on my security setup and I do not feel need of SAS Pro (MBAM and SAS detections overlaps mostly). You can use SAS scheduled scan for further security.

 

Thank you for all my friends, I'll follow your precious advices and tell you the result.


Just one thing, how to add folders to the "ignore list" tab in MBAM ? I'm trying to clic and drop but doesn't work. I don't see any "add" button...


Sincerely,
Mack

 

Current MBAM version do not support manually adding exclusions (ignore list). If you have any detection, then you can exclude it, else not.

 

Most of the points have been covered. I would just add that it's a good idea to keep both MBAM and SAS. Yesterday I was doing malware cleanup for someone. Both of these programs found and removed problems, but in this particular case it was SAS that removed the main problem, which was a "scareware" fake antivirus. My personal preference is to run Prexv (free facebook version with safeonline) along side the primary AV since it is highly compatible and has excellent real-time detection capability (as long as you have an internet connection). I use MBAM and SAS for "on demand".

 

I agree. The idea is to use a Real-Time Scanner (an AV)
and 1 or more On-Demand Scanners as a Back Up solution (Second Opinion).

 

I am using MBAM real time with Emsisoft and use SAS for occasional scans (portable version, although I do have a license). Add a firewall and a HIPS (I use DefenseWall) or sandbox and you have very strong protection.

 

Yes they can be run together. They are a very powerful combo.

 

Kudos to you guys ! I'll test the configuration you advice me:
AV+MBAM real-time and SAS on-demand.

I'm amazed on how light Malwarebytes is.


Thank you my friends,

Mack

 

No, you can not run them together.
You must run them one at a time.

 

I second that (!)

 

They should not cause any problem while together mainly because SAS does only on-execution scan and it is very light on resources. Remember to make exclusions as suggested by Boyfriend. As said by JoeBlack40 the flash screen can be removed from showing. It can also be freezed for other reason. I have experienced that before.

 

Is it technically impossible or just not recommended ? BG tells us he runs NIS & MBAM at the same time without any slowdown...I'm a bit lost now

Mack

 

Running Both SAS and MBAM Real-Time? Why doing that?
Just run one (1) On-Access/Real-Time
and
the other On-Demand as a Back-Up/Second Opinion Scanner.

-Even worse Scenario:

Running Both SAS and MBAM Real-Time while having a Resident AV?
-SAS Real-Time
-MBAM Real-Time
-AV Real-Time

What a WASTE of System Resources!