MalwareBytes or SUPERAntiSpyware?

[Wheelie]

I'm with MrUnknown, used MBAM countless times and it's NEVER messed a system up that I've used it on.

I'd have to agree. Never had an issue with mbam hosing a system.

 

[PROROOTECT]

Hmmm ... I'm sure you know this also: 'Remove Fake Antivirus' last version v1.61: http://freeofvirus.blogspot.com/search/label/Removal Tool

 

[sandvtech]

I use both. Have not had trouble with them.

 

[lvtechie]

I normally use MBAM for routine scans and both when cleaning

 

[LunchBox]

Also, as for Mbam messing up a system....knock on wood...never had it happen yet. However, I have ran Mbam on some severely infected hard drives that I slaved to my laptop and on 3 occasions, after removing the infections Mbam found, Windows would not boot properly to the desktop. Two of the times they user account logon files were damaged and I can't remember exactly what happened on the 3rd time. On the first two I had to do an XP repair install which fixed the problem but it was very time consuming.

But again, these were slaved drives and I don't know how much can be blamed on Mbam or on the infections, however both were (barely) bootable to the desktop before.

The very nastiest of malware can make a machine non-bootable, screw up TCP/IP or corrupt files. If one of those infections are on a machine I am willing to bet that it wont matter what app you use to remove the infection it would still have a problem regardless of which one you use.

What comes after using a tool is your experience one repair a machine that wont boot.

I always prefer MBAM is installs quick and scans quicker than SAS.

 

[SThompson86]

I like SAS better. I have Malwarebytes not fully clean a system before.

 

[xxsilk109xx]

I have seen them both not clean a system entirely, so i use mbam, then i use sas, with the combo of the two, you will get everything out of there.

 

[chrisaroz]

I find it interesting that the "old standards" like Norton, McAfee, and even the free guys (most to all of them) aren't protecting against these newer threats like Malwarebytes and SAS do. It seems that ALL the major issues nowadays are caused by malware that installs right along with the normal anti-virus software.

 

[DanB]

None work all the time

I started using MBAM when the new rouges starting showing up (antivirus 2008). It worked well for them. These are the ones that pop up and say you have 60 virus and for 80.00 it will cleam them and protect you. I have come across a new rouge (search guard) that mbam does not see. SAS does a decent job as well, but I cannot live without spybot S&D. Call me old school, but it is still a great tool. It will do a scan prior to drivers loading when it finds a problem it cannot fix.

 

[Xander]

I have seen them both not clean a system entirely, so i use mbam, then i use sas, with the combo of the two, you will get everything out of there.

I first tried out SAS a couple of years ago and was completely unimpressed. It found (and after MBAM runs, still does find) mostly tracking cookies.

Over the last couple of months and in part due to the praise I've seen it receive on Technibble, I've given it a second chance. Often it still just finds cookies ignored by MBAM but there's been a couple of systems where it's really pulled its weight.

I've recently signed up as a reseller for both of them.

 

[Joe The PC Doc]

my "1 2 punch" is MBAM and then ComboFix - between the two of them my clients have clean computers

(usually!lol)

This is also my usual method of attack. ComboFix seems to clean up alot of the tracks that MBAM misses, but MBAM usually gets me to a point where I can feel safe running ComboFix.

Just wish ComboFix didn't expire in what seems like every 3 days. Especially since the latest version isn't always available when I need it.