Malwarebytes does not pass any AMTSO tests

[coltrane58]

I ran the 5 tests provided on the AMTSO site and none of the tests were caught by malwarebytes.

why?

 

http://www.amtso.org/feature-settings-check.html

[FleischmannTV]

Malwarebytes does not support AMTSO tests but that doesn't mean its protection isn't working. You can test its file system protection with the spycar test suite and the web protection with http://iptest.malwarebytes.org/ .

[coltrane58]

thank you.

[Firefox]

You are testing an Antimalware product with tools that are designed to test your Antivirus Program...

Like comparing Apples with Oranges..

[daledoc1]

Hi:
 

You can test its file system protection with the spycar test suite

 
Staff will correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think so.
That is for anti-virus programs.
MBAM is not an anti-virus.
That test will not work with MBAM.

 

Cheers,

[digmorcrusher]

Whenever I try these test Chrome blocks 4 of then and Bitdefender Trafficlight blocks the other so my other protection doesn't even come into play. 

[coltrane58]

I really don't get what everyone is saying. A virus is malware. So if Malwarebytes is an Anti-Malware product it should flag viruses. It also didn't detect the phishing link.

 

as for >>

>>You are testing an Antimalware product with tools that are designed to test your Antivirus Program...
>>
>>Like comparing Apples with Oranges..

 

I would think that an antimalware program is a superset that includes antivirus. So not apples and oranges.

 

Besides saying that that it is an antimalware program not antivirus tell me one virus that is not malware.

 

[daledoc1]

Hi, @coltrane58:

 

Until the staff members and other experts have a chance to weigh in, you might find helpful these 2 posts by one of our resident malware experts, @David H. Lipman:

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=98097&st=0&p=487311entry487311
http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=102698&view=findpost&p=507785

 

There's also this KB topic: Does Malwarebytes Anti-Malware replace antivirus software?

 

Cheers,