Paul01 Posted May 30, 2009 ID:84988 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Hello,I'm Paul and I am French.I would like to know what you think of this test. http://infomars.fr/forum/index.php?showtopic=2451He says nothing about the virus database he has.Thank youI apologize for my very bad English. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted May 30, 2009 ID:84995 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Greetings Paul and welcome .I don't speak French unfortunately so I couldn't completely make out the parameters of the test, but if it was done against nothing more than a folder storing dormant malware files then these results would be typical. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware doesn't scan and detect threats in the same way that regular anti-virus scanners do, it uses advanced heuristic algorithms to detect active threats on a system. This means that it won't hit on most threats unless they are in the actual location they would be in on an actual infected system, where they are actually capable of doing harm. It looks at the system Registry, processes in memory and all the key system folders and locations where infections like to hide. That's the reason that most tests like this end up with similar results. Another thing to remember is that Malwarebytes' is also only designed to catch current threats not detected or properly removed by most anti-virus softwares, therefore if the majority of the test samples are older threats or common threats that are detected by most major anti-virus programs then Malwarebytes' would not detect them.Paul Bonjour et bienvenue . Je ne parle pas fran Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul01 Posted May 30, 2009 Author ID:85004 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Thank you for your quick response. Can I give the link of this thread on Infomars forum?Best regard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted May 30, 2009 ID:85015 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Sure, I don't see why not . It would probably help them in understanding the results of the test and if they wanted help in really testing Malwarebytes' I'm sure there are plenty of users here who would be willing to help.Bien s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sho-dan Posted May 30, 2009 ID:85017 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Hello exile360The user has posted a zipped mbam log result in which has "No action taken", so by not removing said infection their test would be incomplete. eh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted May 31, 2009 ID:85202 Share Posted May 31, 2009 Thanks sho-dan, I didn't even catch the attached log . I think this explains it:d:\virii\That's exactly what I was talking about, Malwarebytes' is not designed to detect dormant threats sitting in a folder or archive, it's designed to catch active threats on a system that is actually infected.<Apologies for the overuse of bold text, it just bugs me how many "experts" keep conducting these so called "tests" without doing any research on how Malwarebytes' works> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul01 Posted May 31, 2009 Author ID:85216 Share Posted May 31, 2009 <Apologies for the overuse of bold text, it just bugs me how many "experts" keep conducting these so called "tests" without doing any research on how Malwarebytes' works>Hello and thank you.That is what I thought about this so called "expert". Best regards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted May 31, 2009 ID:85217 Share Posted May 31, 2009 You're very welcome . Thank you for posting about it here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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