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Hi there
It will pick up some PUPS of course -- however the trick of "Writing a Good PUP" (Ugh !!!) is to make the program appear as far as possible like a standard Windows executable rendering it hard to detect that it is malware.
I don't doubt that MBAM is reasonably effective but these can never be 100%. I have a Linux Internet gateway and Proxy server that monitors my Internet traffic and I use the hardware router logs regularly -- if anything untoward - I don't even bother to look for the cause - I simply RESTORE from my last clean backup --that works 100% and is a lot less time consuming than "After the fact" analysis or as they say in the USA "Monday Morning Quarterbacking".
As in all these things YMMV of course
BTW since using a Linux Proxy server and Internet gateway I've had ZERO problems !! The Linux server is 100% reliable --only time it's down is to add / change hardware -- and even HDD's can be "Hot swapped".
You could do the same on Windows machines too if you have a spare machine -- create a Proxy server and rout Internet requests through it.
Sounds complex but it's incredibly easy and very little overhead on Internet connection.
Cheers
jimbo