Using as stand alone product

[aktiff26]

I have 1 year licence. can i use it alongside windows defender  in one pc or can i use it alongside kaspersky free? or can i use it stand alone whitout another av? 

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[exile360]

Greetings,

You may use it either way.  Malwarebytes 3 Premium with all of its layers of protection should be sufficient on its own, however it has also been designed in such a way that if you do wish to continue to run a traditional AV alongside it like Windows Defender or Kaspersky you may.  Please refer to this FAQ entry for additional information.

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1 hour ago, aktiff26 said:

or can i use it stand alone whitout another av

MBAM is NOT AN ANTIVIRUS , so running it alone is not recommended.

[exile360]

That's correct, it is not an antivirus, however modern day threats aren't viruses either so an actual antivirus isn't the most effective means of protection.  The various layers in Malwarebytes 3 are designed to deal with today's threats, not only by targeting malware files, but also by utilizing several signature-less technologies to stop attacks throughout the various phases of the attack chain which is especially effective since virtually all modern threats are blended attacks using multi-stage attack vectors, with the vast majority utilizing exploits; something that Malwarebytes is extremely effective against thanks to its Anti-Exploit layer and system hardening layer which both deflect as well as detect and stop exploit based attacks including browser exploits as well as malicious script based attacks and maliciously coded documents and similar threats.  The other layers in Malwarebytes extend that protection even further by blocking the sources of malware via Web Protection to stop malvertisements used for exploits and drive-by downloads as well as the servers where malicious binaries are hosted and the command & control servers used by the bad guys for sending out commands to their botnets and Trojans and for retrieving data exfiltrated from systems of infected users (as with password stealers and keyloggers) and the more traditional Anti-Malware layer uses not only traditional threat signatures like an AV, but also includes more advanced heuristics signatures and threat pattern algorithms to identify both known and unknown threats and the recently activated signature-less anomaly detection engine which targets unknown and new malware using cloud based machine learning (what most AV vendors refer to these days as "AI", though technically speaking there is no such thing as true Artificial Intelligence in software at this time) which becomes smarter the more files it analyzes over time.  Lastly is the Anti-Ransomware layer which monitors all processes and threads in memory for ransomware behavior to detect and stop any ransomware attacks should they successfully get past the other more proactive defenses.

Then of course there is the scan engine which uses smart signatures, heuristics and many of the same techniques as the Anti-Malware real-time protection layer to detect any threats that might already be installed/active on the system and it also includes a special component called Linking which uses intelligent threat installation data to locate all the components of an installed threat using individual trace detections to expose an infection's entire installation.  Also, optionally (if activated in Malwarebytes' settings) there is the Anti-Rootkit engine which looks for active rootkits on the system during scans, checking the drivers, processes in memory, data on disk as well as the boot files/partitions to search for and detect active rootkit infections to remove them.  The remediation engine also uses DOR (Delete On Reboot) technology to ensure comprehensive and effective removal to rip malware out of the system early during the boot process when infections aren't able to protect themselves from being cleaned.  Malwarebytes also includes several automated repair routines so that when a rootkit is detected, if it is one of those known to do damage to any system components such as System Restore, the Windows Firewall, several network components used for getting the system online, and system services, they are repaired automatically during cleanup so that the system is back to running normally after an infection by any of these rootkits.

Additional information on the various layers in Malwarebytes 3 and how the work to effectively protect your system may be found on this page.

Edited June 26, 2018 by exile360