Re: AV and Malwarebytes together?

[Roger A Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

It's not our recommendation, but, we have users who do exactly that.  I'm not sure if they suffer more, or fewer 
intrusions, but I do know that users who run both also suffer intrusions.

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> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan Hay
> Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 3:34 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] AV and Malwarebytes together?
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> I no longer work in EDU, but I find these lists to be very helpful, so I hope you
> don't mind if I pose a question...
>
> Is anyone running Malwarebytes and AV software together on your PCs?
>
> Or do you have an AV vendor that you think does a good enough job on their
> own?
>
> We've found Malwarebytes can catch a good amount of stuff our current AV
> vendor isn't catching, so I'm considering running both.  Malwarebytes claims
> to play nice with most AV vendors.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nathan Hay
> Information Security Engineer | NOC
> WinWholesale Inc.
> 888-225-5947
>
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