is running Malwarebytes with viper anti-virus overkill

hi i have viper antivirus 2012 and was wondering if adding malware bytes to the computer if that would be overkill? found a deal for 10bucks to get the payed mbam so was curious

 

No it would not be overkil

 

absolutely not........remember to exclude mbam from vipre and vice versa....and make sure you grab the deal from a legitimate source.....

 

Not overkill.
The folks on the MBAM forum have said,

I obviously think the two programs work great together.

 

I run MBAM-Pro with Avast Internet Security on one pc, with ESET on another, and with Norton AV on the other (wife and 2 kids in college). It doesn't cause any issues or slow down the system at all. Go for it...and sleep well at night!

 

roflmao... ......it targets FAKE viruses?.....those mbam folks are funny.....

 

Did you try running both products?
How was it? (in terms of Resource-Consumption)
Malwarebytes Pro has been designed to coexist with an AV.

 

Not only is it not overkill, for me it is a necessity. If I had an AV that would not run with MBAM I would ditch the AV.
Jerry

 

I absolutely agree

 

As everyone have said, Malwarebytes is complementary

 

The malware research guy at MBAM who said that, and the MBAM Product Manager who agreed with him, are differentiating between types of the all-inclusive term malware.

Here's a Wikipedia excerpt for you, ams963...
Although it's easy to get a little lost in all the details, you'll at least see the term 'true virus' being used.

My understanding is, a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance. I've read, for example, that email viruses are not true viruses because they can't replicate without human interaction.
HTH

 

Although the folks at MBAM have said "MBAM is NOT a replacement for your AV and is intended as a complementary program to use in a layered defense setup for your PC", as I said in another thread, I was interested to learn Marcin uses MBAM on its own with no other AV as protection. [He said this in answer to a question posed on his blog.]

 

definitely no.

 

Nope. MBAM can be run by itself, if you have other security measures. It doesn't need to be an AV though. A lot of folks here have AV-less configurations. MBAM catches a good amount of malware. These days you see less and less real virus. You see a lot more rogues, trojans and fake av's. All of which MBAM catches wonderfully. No MBAM won't protect you against exploits and scripts but an updated system and programs along with standard user rights, will keep you safe. It doesn't hurt to have an anti-exe or sandbox/isolation program running either.

 

No...I have been running this combination for years, since when Vipre used to be called CounterSpy.

 

Yes, it is complete overkill .....Just kidding, I just figured that someone had to say yes amongst all these no's!

Nothing catches everything and MBAM will certainly add an extra layer of protection.

 

He was on my list of guys whose setups I'd like to know.

 

hmm.....you've got no sense of humor buddy.......I know the actual terms... it just seemed funny.......

 

Just because I didn't laugh when you laughed, doesn't mean I don't have a sense of humor. I actually tried to help by explaining something. Did you see the HTH at the end of my post? No problem, though. Glad you know the actual terms.

 

ah! I see......okay.....truce....

 

JerryM. Did you exclude Norton from MBAM and Vice versa? What about you Page 42 and Rompin Raider? I didn't exclude MBAM from Avira and Vise versa and haven't run into issues as far as I know. But maybe I should.

 

yeah should definitely set the exclusions........especially the mbam.sys and mbamswissarmy.sys .........otherwise it takes long time for mbam to scan.......

 

The Hammer, I used to have exclusions set but lost the configurations when I had to uninstall/reinstall v1.6 on my XP machines.
And I've been too busy (or has it been too lazy?) to reset them all since then.
I fully intend to, as I believe it is a good idea.
For the time being, however, no problems without the exclusions.
HTH

 

Long time to scan? Not for me. Any other reasons to consider? Page42 yes it helps to know what other people are doing. Thanks.

 

No, I have not set exclusions with any AV.

I have used MBAM along with Norton, Kaspersky, Avira, and Avast with no problems. I have not done anything as to special settings, but just let everything run.
Happy New Year,
Jerry