Download Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware 1.50 Beta

Malwarebytes has been developing the next generation of Anti-Malware for some time and has now released its first public beta release. The program is similar to Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware, but it does not focus on fighting spy and adware. What it does do is remove malicious software that pretends to be a bona fide antivirus or antispyware solution, but actually has less good intentions. As with Ad-Aware, there is a paid variant that offers additional functionality, including real-time protection. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware 1.50 Public Beta

We are very excited about these major improvements in Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware 1.50. This version represents a complete overhaul of much of our functionality. Among the highlights are:

• Dramatically improved scan speed: up to 5 times faster.
• Dramatically improved stability of both the scanner and protection module (free and pro version, respectively).
• More responsive: program loads up to 3 times faster, and protection module has lower impact on system resources (pro version only).
• New internal detection algorithms enable detection of more real-world malware.
• You can now add files and folders to the ignore list manually.
• Ability to schedule and unschedule scans and updates from the command line (pro version only).
• Notifications of blocked malicious websites now include additional details such as type, port, and process on Windows Vista and higher.
• Dramatically improved flash scan (pro version only) — determine whether a more in-depth scan is needed, in less than 10 seconds on many machines.
• One-touch easy-to-use option to keep protection up-to-date automatically (pro version only).
• “Warn if database is outdated by:” option now warns if the database is far out-of-date (7 days by default), including for protection (pro version only).