[ RESOLVED ] Is the email scam? How does EULA work?

[thequestionasker]

Hello, I arrived at this company perhaps a year ago, and this guy that's using the company's regular mail forwarded a mail from a supposed Malwarebytes employee.  

The header in field reply to: is @malwarebytes.com.

Basically what the mail is talking about is "You are using free Malwarebytes in a company and that is prohibited by our EULA" , you've installed recently this much and that much.

I was like, what ? The minute I got the job I got Sophos and rounded up and installed it on my domain PCs, so naturally I thought it cleaned up all the other AVs that were installed. I didn't install any MB ever since I got the job.

However, seems rarely any antivirus recognizes Malwarebytes as AV that'd be meddling with it so it leaves it, and after checking I saw that some PCs really did have Malwarebytes (free) on it. This is something my lovely predecessor did, so naturally I'd like to know the following.

Does malwarebytes have a policy of sending those kind of emails? And if so, do they send them from personal emails (e.g. jdoe@malwarebytes.com)?

And if the email is legit, what would be the regular course of action? Will deleting them be fine?

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[Porthos]

37 minutes ago, thequestionasker said:

And if the email is legit, what would be the regular course of action? Will deleting them be fine?

Uninstalling Malwarebytes from the business computers would put you in compliance.

As for the emails, I can not say.

[thequestionasker]

Thanks, all I needed to know. Will not click on anything in that email though, seems fishy. 

As far as I'm concerned, the topic can be closed :)

[AdvancedSetup]

Closing this topic as it's been resolved.