How to Use Malwarebytes Anti-malware Home to Find, Remove

This updated guide examines How to Use Malwarebytes Anti-malware Home to Find, Remove and organizes the essential facts, background, and practical takeaways in clear American English.

Responsible-use note: Apply security techniques only to systems you own or are explicitly authorized to test.

1. What is Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Home?

Yes, Malwarebytes is a very famous security company worldwide, with many anti-virus programs like Endpoint Security, Anti Malware, Anti Exploit. with 2 main versions: Home - personal customers, and Business - for organizations and businesses. This article refers to the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware version of the Home version - the personal version.

Download link

The steps to download and install are quite basic, just Next> Next> Finish is done.

Uncheck the check box under Malwarebytes Anti Malware Premium if you don't want to use the paid version

2. How to use Malwarebytes Anti Malware on your computer:

The main interface of the program will look like this:

• The License section specifies this is a free version - Free.
• Update function - updating the antivirus database will work if you click on the Update link on the right hand side.

That, on the main interface of AntiMalware, only that, and to start scanning the system, you click the Scan Now button after the Update process is successful.

As you can see, here are 7 main processes in Scan chalk, including:

• Check Update - update.
• Prepare to scan.
• Scan memory.
• Scan Startup files - Windows startup.
• Scan the Registry.
• Scan all system files in drive C.
• Analyze suspicious actions.

And the entire Scan process will take place in about 15 - 30 minutes depending on the computer configuration, the number of files on the hard drive.

As in this example, I installed Malwarebytes Anti Malware on a computer running Windows 8.1 operating system, 32-bit version, data storage capacity is about 10GB and the entire Scan time is less than 10 minutes. Such speed is quite fast, isn't it? For any device that Malwarebytes has detected, it will display the following screen:

Photo: Bleeping Computer

If a threat is detected, after the scan is complete, select the dangerous items and click the Remove Selected button as shown. However, to completely remove the virus from your computer, you need to restart the laptop to apply the change.

Good luck!