I've hears a lot about Malwarebytes but I don't rate it. (Discuss)

Tarka Dal

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I've hears a lot about Malwarebytes but I don't rate it.
Ihave tried it on several occasions but have found it lacking in detection. I have found another Trojan remover that works better but all to often people will say otherwise. What client do you think is better?
 

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    Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 St
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    Asus STRIKER EXTREME 680I SLI
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    Corsair 4GB Kit (4x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory
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Personally over the years I've tried/used alot of the freeware programs. Some of the good ones (in the past) over the years have become trialware. While they take forever to run they are like any of them; they will detect malware that some others won't, but then another one will detect something that that one didn't. Used to use Housecall, not any more; used to use Panda, not any more; tried to use Kapersky, site down at the time.
What I have used over the last couple of years; freeware; is SpywareBlaster: good proactive; Spybot S&D: good detective; AVG: so so detective; been experiminting so just yesterday installed malwarebytes and ran; found 13 infections that the others had missed. Most were in the Hotbar family of Adaware, how effective to detect and subsequently quarintine in the future, only time will tell; but afterall it is free and can't hurt: at least not yet.
 

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    Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4 Ghz LGA 775 Quad
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    Foxconn P45A-S LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX
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    OCZ2VU80016GQ 16GB (4x4GB) DDR2 800Mhz Vista Dual Channel
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    2- Sapphire 10022SL Radeon HD 3850 PCI-e in Crossfire mode
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    Acer H213H 21.5" Widescreen Full HD 1080P LCD
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    2- Seagate ST3160023AS HD 500GB
    2- Seagate ST31000333AS HD 1TB
    1- Seagate ST310005FJA105-RK Freeagent Desk 1TB
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    Enermax EG701AX 600W Switching Power Supply
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    Lian Li PC-70 Ext/ATX
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    Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro for Intel CPU
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    MS Keyboard Pro
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    Intellimouse Optical
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    3766.5Kbits 470.8KBytes
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    2- Incessa IN-811 removable drive bays and 8- removable drive bay caddies.
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