[Tutorial] How to use - Malwarebytes Anti Malware

[Codine]

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How to use - Malwarebytes Anti Malware
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Download Link: www.malwarebytes.org

Key Features

* Support for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 (32-bit and 64-bit).
* Light speed quick scanning.
* Ability to perform full scans for all drives.
* Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Protection Module. (requires registration)
* Database updates released daily.
* Quarantine to hold threats and restore them at your convenience.
* Ignore list for both the scanner and Protection Module.
* Settings to enhance your Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware performance.
* A small list of extra utilities to help remove malware manually.
* Multi-lingual support.
* Works together with other anti-malware utilities.
* Command line support for quick scanning.
* Context menu integration to scan files on demand.

Languages Available: English, Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Koraen, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.


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Step One
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Download Malware Bytes Anti-Malware from www.malwarebytes.org You may download the free version, or you might want to Purchase the FULL Version. In this tutorial i will be using the FREE Version. This guide will work exactally the same for the Purchased FULL Version, so please don't worry about that.

Now, Once it's been downloaded please install it.

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Step Two
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Once installed you will be presented with this screen:




Firstly, we need to update it to get the newest database. So, Please click on the "Update" tab.

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Step Three
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Once you've clicked on the "Update" Tab, you should get this screen come up:



Click on update and you should have this box come up:



Once updated you will see it tells you that it's been updated from the old version (Various) numbers to the newest database as seen in the pic here:




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Step Four
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Now, once you have fully updated your copy of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware it's now time to "Scan" your system, for potentially unwanted programs, Malware (Also known as Spyware) and keyloggers ect.

So, Now we need to click on the tab that says "Scanner"


You should be presented with the same screen that you see in step one.

Now, You need to tick the "Perform Full Scan" and then click on scan.

You should be now be presented with this screen:


Yours will probably be diffrent, diffrent hdds (Hard Disc Drives) and CD-Roms, DVD-Rws ect. But you need to tick all of them for this scan. (You don't need to, but i would reccommend it.)

Once you've ticked all of the boxes please click on "Start Scan".

You should be then presented with a screen like this:



Leave this scan running, and if you've got any form of malware, spyware, keyloggers, ect. This program should find it. Altho, it's not 100% but it does help in the every day protection of keeping your computer clean and safe.

Please make sure you update this program daily, and do a "Full System Scan" Weekly.

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Step Five
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Once your scan is complete. You should be presented with a log which will look something like this:

Code:

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.41
Database version: 3129
Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2

11/8/2009 7:41:34 PM
mbam-log-2009-11-08 (19-41-34).txt

Scan type: Full Scan (C:\|)
Objects scanned: 16431
Time elapsed: 2 minute(s), 34 second(s)

Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 0
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 0

Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Keys Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Files Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

As you can see, my log is clear. But if yours is not. Then please tick all of the programs it finds, and click on "Remove Selected"

Restart your computer, and then run a "Full system scan" again.

And you should be clean. I hope this tutorial helps you, and if it does, please feel free to check out my other tutorials.

If you use this tutorial on a diffrent forum, please give me credits.

-Codine

[Skill]

You've done a good job on your tutorials. They are easy to follow, informative and helpful.

[Codine]

Thank you Skill, your feedback is greatly appreciated. I'm going to be making some more ASAP, check back tomorrow. And i should have more! From, Various diffrent programs.