"Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "wasted" <rubbish@xxnone.notreal.com> wrote in
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>> "Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9B43EBE29C329HHI2948AJD832@69.16.185.250.. .
>>> "wasted" <rubbish@xxnone.notreal.com> wrote in
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>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Any comparisons known that compare these two?
>>>
>>> Wouldn't be of much use. SAS and MBAM both update regularly. If you
>>> did a comparison today, two days down the road, one might be outdoing
>>> the other, and vice versa. It also depends on what your infected
>>> with.
>>>
>>>> I have SAS Pro running in the background on my own computer.
>>>
>>> In that case, use us as an on-demand backup. That way, if SAS misses
>>> something, we might be able to catch it for you. And vice versa.
>>>
>>>> However, as recorded in a previous posting, when I was helping a
>>>> friend to recover from a problem, SAS wouldn't run, and it took
>>>> Malwarebytes to save the day!
>>>
>>> The same can happen to MalwareBytes, and it has happened on several
>>> occasions now. SAS and MalwareBytes are both targetted by a few
>>> trojans now.
>>>
>>>
>>> The short of it all, Neither scanner will protect you from
>>> everything. Your safer using them both than one or the other.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Dustin Cook, Author of BugHunter
>>> BugHunter - http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk
>>> MalwareBytes - http://www.malwarebytes.org
>>>
>> Thankyou Dustin - a long and interesting thread, and now you've given
>> me the answer to my question. For me the position seems to be that I
>> may as well leave SAS running in background doing the realtime
>> prevention, and use Malwarebytes as a regular scanner - but the friend
>> whose computer was rescued has been persuaded to buy Malwarebytes!
>> However, she seems to have a congenital defect that makes her click on
>> anything and everything before engaging brain, so I don't think it
>> will be too long before the next problem!!
>
> Nothing wrong with buying malwarebytes, if you wish to use it's resident
> protection. One could always back it up with a realtime scan from SAS.
> It's just the reverse of what your doing.
>
> Besides, really, with the data value, why get cheap on decent protection?
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dustin Cook, Author of BugHunter
> BugHunter - http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk
> MalwareBytes - http://www.malwarebytes.org

Can the realtime protection of malwarebytes and SAS be running at the same
time?

And are there any issues for malwarebytes with 64bit Vista?