What's with Malwarebytes?

I downloaded it, and suddenly, it slowed my computer to a slow crawl. It took about half a minute to open any website. And it took my computer so long to boot up, I thought something was drastically wrong, and I was going to have to take my machine in for repair.

When I disabled it, thankfully, everything returned to normal.

Some apps just don't work very well.

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SW-User

security software, it is an antivirus but it also checks every webpage you open for security/safety. What version of Windows are you running, I'd hope Win 10 since it's the only supported OS

PhoenixPhail · M

@SW-User It's Windows 10.

SW-User

@PhoenixPhail then you can uninstall it and just use the built-in antivirus that comes with 10. windows security used to be a joke, but they've actually improved it greatly with win 10. what comes bundled with it is actually more than good enough for home use. you won't have such a huge performance crash

PhoenixPhail · M

@SW-User Thanks. I'm using Kaspersky Security, which is great for catching viruses, but it's not much good for spyware or PUPs. So, I thought I would try Malwarebytes. Maybe the problem is an incompatibility with Kaspersky.

SW-User

@PhoenixPhail yeah, if you start using too many security software programs together, they definitely start conflicting with each other and slowing each other down and even can see each other as a possible threat trying to undo each others actions..

PhoenixPhail · M

@SW-User That makes sense. I also use SuperAntiSpyware. I really like it, but it has compatibility issues with Kaspersky. Kaspersky even recommended I uninstall it because some of their functions didn't work while I had it on my machine.

PhoenixPhail · M

@SW-User I just opened my Task Manager. Even with all of it's functions disabled, Malwarebytes was using a HUGE amount of RAM. I disabled it.