RubbeR DuckY
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Oh boy. We have too much fun.
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Going to close this before it gets further out of hand. Didn't mean to offend anyone.
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I think that's an absolute silly assumption because we decided to accept a currency that we think is interesting. It'd be the equivalent of us accepting the Yen.
If you think we're becoming rich, that's an even sillier assumption. Accepting Bitcoin has barely paid for the development work thus far.
But if you'd like to continue making assumptions, carry on.
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Perhaps read a bit yourself. Oh yes we really trust this scam.......
Saying that is like saying that cars are bad because some car manufacturer decided to defraud their customers. Bitcoin mining manufacturers have nothing to do with the Bitcoin protocol itself. If that article scares you, don't go buying a Bitcoin miner from Butterfly Labs. That article has nothing to do with the currency itself; it is open source and you can go read the source code anytime you'd like.
As theweirdguy mentioned, you can educate yourself further by reading the whitepaper -- https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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I'm a huge enthusiast of Bitcoin and demanded we accept it
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I've added a small change to clarify that malware removal will still be free for version 2.x and beyond. You didn't pay to get infected, you shouldn't pay to clean it up!
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Just wanted to point anyone who monitors this forum towards the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.00 Beta Test we have going on. We'd really like to hear your feedback there!
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Known issues can be found here.
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I am overjoyed to announce the first public beta of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0. I know you've been waiting a very long time for this and so have we! The purpose of this beta is to get feedback from the people we care most about -- our users!
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0 ships with a completely redesigned user interface to make the product easier to use, more informative, and provide quicker access to key functionality.We have built in and improved our Anti-Rootkit and Chameleon self-protection technologies that have been in beta for the past year. Additionally, we've rewritten Malicious Website Blocking and improved native x64 support. Most importantly, our detection and removal engine was significantly improved under the hood and kicks even more malware butt! This is the biggest rewrite we have ever undertaken, and we hope you’re thrilled with the result.
With the launch of 2.0, we'll also be moving to a subscription licensing model, $24.95 per year. As more and more people have come to rely on us for malware protection and cleanup, our costs in bandwidth, hosting fees, infrastructure, salaries of our researchers, QA department, and more have grown immensely. Though our company is about more than just making money, we are a company and we do have to make money to pay our staff to continue doing what they love, which is fighting malware. The subscription model will help us to be sustainable for the future while staying true to our roots that we will always make malware cleanup free for everyone.
We will continue to honor existing lifetime licenses, meaning any users that already have a lifetime license for 1.x will continue to have a lifetime license for 2.x. We'll be offering a few thousand more lifetime licenses during launch as well. On top of all of that, new subscription licenses will be valid for 3 PCs, not just 1.
We could have gone other routes to make our business more financially sustainable, like adding toolbars or advertisements like many other security products have, but that's not the company we are. We believe that products should be nag-free and cleanup shouldn't cost our users a dime, and we're going to stay true to that. Scanning for and removing malware will be free in version 2.x and beyond! You didn't pay to get infected, you shouldn't pay to clean it up!
With all that said, please see the download link below.
DOWNLOAD:
http://downloads.malwarebytes.org/file/mbam_public_beta
Please also realize that this is beta and is not necessarily stable. We appreciate all feedback, good and bad. If you have feedback, please start a new thread in this forum. Our goal is to provide two more beta builds within the next month and then target a late March public release. As you know, this all relies on how successful our beta period is.
This public beta is for the consumer version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware only. The business version is a few months away and has a number of additional capabilities designed for business users. We'll keep business customers informed via forums and your registered email address as that release gets closer. Meanwhile you're welcome to try this beta on your home computer, but the beta should not be used in a commercial environment, and you should not replace your existing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Small Business Edition as the license keys are not the same.
Finally, Samuel, Ryan, the developers, and the rest of the team will be making their rounds to assist in answering any questions you may have!
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Sorry for the delay Blair. All of the threats in our database were gathered from scratch, so they exist and we were able to get them, i.e. from various app stores.
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We’ve gone mobile! After many months of development and testing, I’m pleased to announce the launch of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Mobile.
If you’re like me, you can’t imagine living without your phone. It’s a social link, a necessary time waster, a business tool, and sometimes I even make calls with it.
So our team of developers and malware researchers built an Android mobile security app for our needs. The Malwarebytes way. We wrote all our own code and built our own malware signature database from scratch. That way we knew that the database was accurate and relevant. And we included only the essential security features—the native Android Device Manager now takes care of all the phone location features typically found in mobile security products, so it didn’t make sense to add those. The core is anti-malware, with a couple other features that can detect apps that are violating your privacy or tracking your physical location.
And it’s just in time. Mobile malware increased by 614 percent over the past year according to some analysts. And that’s to be expected!
I wanted a lean, powerful app that beat the bad guys. And it had to be free. I think we pulled it off. But, more importantly, what do you think?
Download from Google Play here.
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We're giving out 10 free copies on Facebook and Twitter also
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Over the last several years, we’ve had techies asking for their own version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. Allow me to introduce Malwarebytes Techbench.
If you service computers for a living, this tool will make your day a little easier. Simply plug in the Malwarebytes Techbench USB stick, check a few boxes, and it detects and removes malware automatically. It will even install a copy of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware if you so choose.
And this is just the beginning. Malwarebytes Techbench is a work in progress, and we’ll be adding more tools and features, at no extra cost, based on your feedback. This is a different format for us—it’s the only product we offer that can be used to fix PCs without buying individual licenses—so, please, do tell us what does and doesn’t work for you. You’ll see enhancements in every rev.
Basically, this is the tool that I wanted but didn’t exist when I was a tech. Best of all, it costs only roughly $1 per day at the special introductory price. If you do multiple malware removals per day, you know just how inexpensive that is.
Did I mention it also comes with an awesome lanyard?
Visit the product page here to learn more or to buy Malwarebytes Techbench. Read more about it in our press release here.
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We've seen way too many support tickets and forum posts about PUPs, Potentially Unwanted Programs, that we couldn't sit back anymore.
Starting today, we are upping our Malwarebytes Anti-Malware detection to include those annoying and misleading PUPs, in addition to the harmful and dangerous PUPs we already detect.
Click here to read the full blog post and to see a picture of a cute pup. -
You can shoot me a message.
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You guys have no idea how excited I am for this
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It's been a rough week here at Malwarebytes, and I'm sure for many of you as well. We've spent the entire week focused on supporting the users affected by Monday's false positive, as well as implementing systems to prevent this type of problem from ever happening again. If you have not yet received help, please route everything to our support team so we can reach out to you -- the forums aren't an ideal place to track responses, and once you're in our helpdesk system we can help you more quickly.
With that said, I'd like to take a closer look at what we've done to prevent false positives in the future.
1. We've installed a false positive shim server. This server will have virtual machines running a wide range of different configurations and operating system versions, to mirror the range of setups our customers run. Before an update gets pushed out, it will be tested on this server, on every configuration. If a false positive is detected, it will prevent our research team from uploading a database update.
2. We've modified the tools that compress and encrypt our definition updates. The false positives on Monday were not traditional, they were caused by a corrupted file that our encryption tool did not flag. We've made immediate changes to the tool and are testing it with a roll-out date to the entire research team by the end of the week.
3. We've started hiring for our support team. While I am proud of how our support team handled the situation, they were, and still are, very overwhelmed. We realize that Malwarebytes needs to scale proportionally as a team and the support team needs more members. We're going to reach out to our community and hire additional forum members as well.
4. Phone support has been on our plate for quite some time. We've been exploring several different options and approaches. This incident has opened our eyes to how important this really is and we're taking all the steps necessary to make it happen.
We remain fully committed to providing the top quality products you expect from Malwarebytes and to earning and keeping your trust.
Marcin
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You will have an exact list of changes we're putting in place by next week.
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It saddens me to report that at around 3 PM PST yesterday, Malwarebytes released a definitions update that disabled thousands of computers worldwide. Within 8 minutes, the update was pulled from our servers. Immediately thereafter, users flocked to our support helpdesk and forums to ask us for a fix.
I want to offer my sincere apology to our millions of customers and free users. I started this company because I thought everyone was entitled to malware-free computing. We acted overzealously in that mission and realize far superior procedures around updating are needed. More was expected of us, and we failed.
So what's my promise to you? Working day and night, we are commissioning several new resources to stop this from happening again. We are building more redundancy to check our researchers' work and improving our peer review.
Here's what we've done to address the issue. We immediately wrote a tool to fix the issue and published instructions on our forums. If you are affected by the issue, please visit the page. If you need assistance or are uncomfortable performing the fix manually, please contact our support team. We have our entire support staff answering tickets feverishly. Tickets are being answered within an hour, and we will reach out to you by phone if e-mail support is not enough.
Please, once again, accept an apology on behalf of our entire company. Let's get you fixed up and back to a malware-free existence!
Marcin
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Hey guys, we pulled the bad database after just a few minutes and we're going to be issuing a fix shortly. Keep an eye out on the news forum.
This is absolutely unacceptable to me and our company and we are going to work day and night until we have a solution in place to prevent this from happening again.
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The idea has been tossed around for many years. If we do it, we'll let you know far in advance and if you're an existing customer you won't be affected.
Our goal is to provide anti-malware to those who need it, and that's why we have a free version that will scan for and remove.
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Lifetime licenses will always be lifetime licenses. If we ever choose to switch to a subscription basis for home users, existing customers will not be affected.
We've already started this for the Secure Backup product, for example. We bill per year, because the costs for us are per year as well.
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Hello everyone! Thank you all for the wonderful feedback on Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0. We are in need of the following translations at this time and we would really appreciate the help. If you are able to translate, please contact Samuel by clicking here.
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Thank you all for your help!