Hi,
Installing mbam premium/ Pro
Windows defender recognizes mbam premium/ pro as a antivirus and rightly turns it's self off
Only WD feature that may stay on is periodic scanning
I don't know about that article JC posted but it sounds like old info about malwarebytes anti malware engine not about mbam premium/ pro.
I only run WD and not Malwarebytes but another thing I didn't know you could run both at the same time is concerning a firewall which I have been running Comodo + Win 10 both on and active at the same time for over a year now on 4 PC's at my house with no problems so far.
The old adage before was to always run 1 antivirus or 1 firewall being full time active or you might have problems.
Malwarebytes Premium has changed and is now considered not only anti-malware but anti-virus, which is why it registers with Windows Defender when installed. You have the option to override this and have them run side-by-side as Hikertrash showed in post #5, which is how I run them. They coexist nicely.
Malwarebytes is now an antivirus "replacement", It can be used instead of or alongside an AV program in most cases. https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topi...omment=1346719
But...
Like others, I run Defender alongside it. Because...
Malwarebytes does not target script files during a scan.. That means MB will not target; JS, HTML, VBS, .CLASS, SWF, BAT, CMD, PDF, PHP, etc.
It also does not target documents such as; PDF, DOC, DOCx, XLS, XLSx, PPT, PPS, ODF, etc.
It also does not target media files; MP3, WMV, JPG, GIF, etc.
Malwarebytes will detect files like these on execution-only. The web protection and anti-exploit detection will catch/block those upon execution.
I would rather not wait to execute a file that MB does not detect in a scan. Defender has the potential to catch it before I open or on download.
My Malwarebytes Premium and Windows Security
As shown in the following screenshots Marwarebytes Premium Is registered in Windows security and it says all ok. Don't know what difference it will make if I turn off Malwarebytes registration in Windows Security.
Jumanji, that setting should be turned off if you are running both MB and WD. The way W10 works is that if another anti-virus is installed is that it will turn off Defender, the other anti-virus in this case is Malwarebytes. It detects MB as an anti-virus.
Could be a bug. If I were you I would turn that setting off and restart your computer to see if anything changes.
With both running, MBAM should be set to not register with Security. That allows Defender to still do periodic background scans.
In addition, not mandatory, but recommended to add each product to the other's exclusion list. Not hard to do. That reduces/eliminates any cross-checking. I have both running, MBAM not registered, and all the exclusions in place.
From MBAM forum: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topi...efender-users/
I think that allows Defender to do more than just run periodic scans , I believe it allows Defender to be your fully active anti-virus with all protections active.
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