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This is AFTER debloating all the MS bs as much as I can.

The amount of MS telemetry is just mindboggling.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

First time I've heard someone say Malwarebytes sucks. Is this more of a "Recent update makes it bad" thing or "The company behind this software is horrible"? Personally I've never had a problem with them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The company behind the software has always been a piece of shit, but their detection rate (true positives) is really good.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay so is anyone going to elaborate, or..?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't give a damn about privacy, if I'm not mistaken were once caught distributing "fake" malware to test their software, and had an episode where their database got invaded and they didn't even bother with a simple "sorry about that". Also, their service model has some stinky dark design patterns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ditto. Happy Malwarebytes customer here. Would be very interested to hear the issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Edit: disregard. Was raging about AVG.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No worries, panic over! Unless someone else knows something else...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They develope proprietary solutions which makes them a no go in my book