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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AdaXI · T

When I used Malwarebytes, I used the free version and I basically had it completely disabled not running in background or automatically starting when the computer boots up, no it needs to be switched off until you require it, otherwise like you say it starts going renegade wanting to delete other security software and generally being a pain slowing the machine down scanning everything 24/7.
No when you need it run it let it do a scan like say once a month whatever then switch it off again.乂 ᵒ_ᵒ乂

PhoenixPhail · M

@AdaXI That's what I'm going with it. I've disabled all of its features which keep it running all the time. I'll use it just for scanning when I want to.