Malwarebytes Reviews

It is a malware protection solution. We put it on every machine to protect the machine from malware.

It is a cloud product. In terms of the version, we have whatever they're offering or using. They don't do versions anymore because it is a cloud product.

We haven't had to use it. It is there in case we have to use it.

The endpoint protection and response that allows us to restore a machine back to a pre-infected state are the most valuable features.

It is a pretty robust tool. It is also easy to use. They've done quite a lot with the interface lately.

They could come up with better reporting capabilities.

I have been using this solution for probably 10 years.

It has been very stable. We haven't had any issues with that.

It is very scalable. We have 100% usage, and we use it for every single device.

In terms of the number of users, there are only two of us who actually interact with the solution.

Their technical support is outstanding.

We have not used any other solution. This was the first tool that we used for this, and we've stuck with them.

It was very easy. It took about five minutes. 

In terms of the implementation strategy, we just decided that we were going to deploy to every machine. So, we just created a policy to do so, and it just happened.

We don't ever hire integrators or consultants. They cost too much money. 

For its deployment and maintenance, there are just two people. I'm the IT manager, and then I have an IT technician.

There hasn't been an ROI because we haven't had an event that would cause this software to do something. Therefore, at this point, it has just been a cost to us because we haven't gotten anything out of it.

Its licensing is annual. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee.

We didn't evaluate other options. At the time, Malwarebytes was literally the only tool. Now, there are others, but it was the only tool at the time.

It is a fantastic product, and you should consider evaluating it. It is an easy product to use. We haven't had an incident where we needed to use it. So, I can't say for sure, but I'm making an assumption that the product will do what it needs to do when the time comes. Considering the overall management of the system and seeing what is being protected, it is doing a great job.

I would certainly rate it a nine out of 10.

One of the reasons we use the solution is to protect the endpoints. Plus we are also using the EDR facility to protect servers and for emergency response. As for Malwarebytes, they will be able to help us track how the malware activities happened, which can help us in the restoration process. We haven't come across anything where we had to use these services or use the tool to recover anything. We haven't come to that yet. 

Often, the customers had been compromised previously, and, due to that, we propose that solution to them. They like that tracking and restoration options are on the table if they get breached again.

The solution is very good at scanning. 

It's a good product. It does the job. 

It offers good protection. I haven't come across any issues so far, which I need to escalate.

The solution scales remarkably well.

We've had a good experience dealing with technical support.

We have noticed that when the solution is doing the scanning, all the scanning activities make the device heavier. It slows down your machine. Alternatively, sometimes when it's scanning the application fast, you find that your applications will be slow in response. If you compare it to, for example, Trend Micro, this slow down doesn't happen when you use that solution.  

Basically, this solution seems to have issues with CPU and Memory. If you have got a good, high spec machine, then you won't feel it. If you go running SSDs and other stuff, you won't feel that performance issues. We have got customers in Fiji who are using 5,400 RPM hard disks, so they feel the pinch.

The solution is a bit expensive.

I've been using the solution for about two years at this point.

The stability is good. We haven't faced any issues so far.

The solution has a lot of scalability potential. If a company needs to expand it, it won't have a problem at all.

We've been in touch with technical support on a few deployments at this point. On a couple of deployments, we had some glitches where we were not able to deploy it on MacBooks. We hit a few walls dealing with iOS, and they were very good at helping us deploy the product. 

We were lucky in that we had a contact that had an account manager, and they were great on the support side. They really helped us out.

We've been satisfied with the level of service we've gotten

We also work with Trend Micro, Symantec, and Kaspersky.

The solution was not complex to set up. It was pretty straightforward for the most part. We found it to be rather easy.

We typically connect with one of the techs and one of the account managers during deployments. The engineer we connected with was very knowledgeable about the product and made everything ever easy.

The solution really needs to look around at the rest of the market. They're slightly more expensive and it would be ideal if they were more competitive.

We're an official partner in Fiji.

We use both on-premises and cloud-based deployment models. 

I'd recommend the solution to others. That said, I always recommend a POC is done first to see if it will properly fulfill a company's needs.

Overall, I would rate the product at an eight out of ten.

I use the product primarily to detect and diagnose threats and enhance security within my organization. It helps detect and investigate potential threats in real time, allowing us to block malicious files promptly.

The most valuable features are its user-friendliness and the ease of use of the user interface. Additionally, its robustness in detecting and diagnosing threats is highly beneficial.

The product could be improved in blocking malicious traffic, such as communication with known malicious IP addresses.

I have been using Malwarebytes for about six years.

The technical support services are good. The response time depends on the severity of the issue.

Positive

The initial setup was straightforward. Depending on pre-installation tasks, we deployed it across about 400 endpoints within minutes. It required a small team, typically security engineers and IT admins. Mostly, it involved updating the agents, which can be done through the console for maintenance.

The product generates a return on investment in terms of cost-effectiveness and efficient security features. 

Malwarebytes is a cost-effective product.

The solution helps by blocking potential malicious files and allowing us to conduct on-demand scans. I recommend it for organizations looking to deploy on client machines. I rate it an eight out of ten.

Our primary use of the solution is for malware protection.

The central management of devices from different sites is a very good feature; this has made them much easier to manage.

It would be better if updates could be downloaded, and deployed, on-premises to avoid low bandwidth causing issues.

We have been using the solution for around four years.

We have found this solution to be stable for day-to-day use.

We found the solution to be scalable. However, our increased usage caused performance issues, and required a lot of updates to be installed.

The technical support could be improved; we find we have to make several requests before an issue is looked into.

Neutral

Implementation of the solution was carried out by the vendor, via the cloud.

We found that on-premises deployment of this solution requires a more expensive license than cloud-based deployment.

I would recommend organizations in areas with low bandwidth to consider using the on-premises version of this solution. This will help avoid delays in updates via the cloud, as that depends on high internet speeds being available.

I would rate this solution a four out of ten.

Our primary use case is as a tool that is effective protection for malware and includes automated remediation and ransomware rollback. I'm the executive director of the company and we are resellers. 

From a business perspective, using Malwarebytes means we now have very few disruptions which save the company a lot of time. We previously had a lot of false positives that halted some of the services that impact certain departments. Because the solution is based on cloud, we were able to reduce management issues and the business was enhanced by the automated remediations.

This solution has a strong industry reputation in terms of its successful ransomware shut down operations. I value the complete visibility it offers and the ease of use. From our experience, it provides 100% visibility and detects hundreds of infections. With other similar solutions, the remediation can take some time but with Malwarebytes, it's a lot quicker. As a result, it provides a good user experience in the sense that downtime is significantly reduced. We use the solution extensively. 

I'd like to see increased efficiency in terms of detecting false positives because we sometimes have cases where detections are repeated despite requests for them to be identified as false positives. It creates a problem for our security department and is annoying to deal with. Once you mark it as a false positive that should be it. 

It would be helpful if they were to introduce more flexibility in terms of cloud management because there are certain things that could be more granular or specific. It sometimes lumps three or four cases into one group. 

I've been using this product for a year. 

We've been running the solution for over a year and it's quite stable. Performance is excellent. We haven't had any degradation or performance issues. We have a maximum of two network administrators dealing with maintenance. 

We have close to 600 end clients, devices, and haven't had any issues with scalability. We'll extend use as needed. We were told that even with double the number of users there won't be any issues. 

From the perspective of our technicians and engineers, the support was very good. We are rating it in comparison to McAfee and CrowdStrike, where we felt the support was not as forthcoming. 

We still use CrowdStrike, although to a much lesser degree because it's less effective in resolving problems. Likewise with McAfee protection, where we had issues with service quality that interrupted our business.

The initial setup was straightforward and transparent. It took just a few hours and was deployed by our in-house IT people. 

It's worthwhile doing a case study and testing the solution in your environment and comparing results between different products. We have a lot of virus spyware exploit samples that we keep just for testing purposes, and we use the same consistent standard to test it. In our case, the result was that Malwarebytes came out on top of the others.

Malwarebytes isn't yet perfect for a lot of endpoint solutions. From a cloud-based management perspective, there are still issues with endpoint isolations and automated remediations. It requires some fine-tuning even though it comes out on top in terms of performance.

We use the solution for scanning malware.

The solution scans very well.

The UI could be more user-friendly.

I have been using Malwarebytes for three years.

The product is stable.

I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.

The initial setup is straightforward. It took probably about 10-15 minutes to complete.

Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

We primarily use the solution as a form of protection against attacks.

We've had threats from viruses before. This solution protects us from them and keeps our company safe.

The product is quite good. It offers a good amount of memory and it is easy to manage for our team. 

The technical support is quite good. They're very effective at responding if we need their assistance.

The installation process is very easy, especially since it is on the cloud.

It offers a very straightforward system for monitoring.

The online reporting needs to be improved. Currently, we have to look at it online, and if we want to download a report, it just downloads as an Excel file. It's just raw information. There needs to be some way to better display it when it's downloaded.

It would be helpful if the solution could integrate with Unbuntu.

Our organization has been using the solution for about three years.

We've found the solution to be quite stable. We haven't faced any issues with crashes and I can't recall running into any bugs or glitches. It's worked very well.

For our purposes, the solution is scalable - at least in our region. It doesn't require too much reconfiguration.

We've had a good experience with technical support so far. We've been satisfied with the level of service we've received.

The initial setup was very straightforward for our team. We didn't find it complex at all. I'd say that the team considered it to be very easy.

Deployment took about an hour and a half. You just need a PC and WIFI. In total, to get everything set up properly, it took us about a month. It took that amount of time to make it work within our environment.

We only require about two to three people for deployment and maintenance. We used two people to deploy and have three people on maintenance duties.

We did not use an integrator or reseller. Our own team handled the implementation in house.

We're just a customer and end-user. We don't have any special association with the company.

Malwarebytes provides the cloud for our organization. I'm not sure of the version number is of the solution we are currently using.

For a company with about 100 or more PC units, the solution is quite effective. It makes monitoring easy. There's also a lot of reporting that can be done, and the solution provides protection for a lot of applications including Windows and Zoom.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

My job position is Cybersecurity Engineer. We use the solution as an EDR or endpoint detection response. As EDR is, it is not the primary endpoint protection as it can not control the risk. This product is working as behavior monitoring for the end users. These monitoring products are not controlling the endpoint. For controlling the endpoint, you can use EPP (Endpoint Protection) products like Symantec Endpoint Protection, Trend Micro Endpoint Protection, one that was called OfficeScan — now the updated one is called Apex One — or other strong endpoint protection solutions like Sophos Intercept X and so on. But Malwarebytes is just EDR. EDR is mainly for detecting usage behaviors. It is evaluation and it is not technically protection for the user environment.  

The interface is not so bad. The dashboard actually is good. It is simple. But it is not able to produce simulated attacks.  

I know of more than ten critical cases with clients which affect their use of the product adversely. We work with the Malwarebytes company a lot and have discussed the existing problems with the manager of Research and Development. He would not just say "You are right." But even though he knows that there are issues, there have been no changes in the results and improvements with the product even up until now.  

I want to help secure the environments of the clients I work for. I want to benefit a lot of people, a lot of clients and a lot of users. I have specific things, technical details for each feature and each use case that I have worked on. But the company is not making the broader changes they need to in the product to make it an effective solution.  

The most obvious problem is that basically the product comes up with a lot of false positives. This needs to be resolved.  

There are other particular pain points with the current solution which have to do with the reporting and the problems with difficulty of installation. But these are still not the biggest problems for people using the product.   

An additional feature I would like to see is a randsomeware roll back for 72 hours and for 100 GB of files. It is supposed to be a feature in the EDR to defend against randsomeware. But we cannot stop ransomware with EDR. We are supposed to be able to roll back the encrypted files. But it is a fact that, in production, we can not effectively roll back the ransomwares and encrypted files after this kind of attack. The company fails to say we can not go back. It is an important feature in these products and to the clients. But it is not effective.  

I have been implementing this solution as a technical consultant in IT and I have implemented this solution more and more over time starting one year ago.  

The product is not stable. It is not broken all the time but the stability of this solution needs to be improved.  

They have not been receptive to our suggestions about the product and have not resolved the issues that we have reported in great detail.  

We are currently looking for a new solution because I am not satisfied with the product or the effort of the vendor to meet the needs of users. I have gone through the trouble of making a table for competition analysis between various vendors to see how they compare and that includes several vendors of EDR solutions including Malwarebyte, enSilo, CrowdStrike, Carbon Black and SentinelOne. I think we will end up working with Carbon Black or CloudStrike. But the current solution with malwarebytes does not perform well enough to properly protect our clients.   

I find that the setup and configuration are complex and difficult.  

We are the ones who do the installations and implementation.  

I have a lot of baggage with this product because of problems I have with the customers, the implementation, the configuration, the settings — it is very, very troublesome. There are various players on the course now. Some solutions may perform better.  

I have had a bad experience with Malwarebyte in general. There are a lot of issues I have caught. I wrote these issues down to compile them and then I sent the information to Malwarebyte. Over some time, there was no improvement from the research and development or technical support from this vendor. I have only a few words about this product: It is not good yet. But they have also show almost no interest in improving it.  

The proxy setting is a very nice feature. But, with that, you can not remove the proxy settings for the clients who are going out of the office for travel. You have to go to each laptop and write a manual cmd (command line) script to remove the proxy settings. It should not be done this way. It is just another example. 

On a scale from one to ten with one being the worst and ten being the best, I would rate this product as a one-and-a-half. It is one of the worst products which I have ever used. If I have to choose a whole number it does not round up, it will round down to a one.