

Sound is fine using native Windows 10 on the same machine.Ī: There are any number of complaints about this on the Internet, Bill, especially in the VirtualBox forums. I have tried different media players with no improvement. The sound sputters and pops and is too fast.

There have been many complaints on the web but no solutions. Q: Hi Nick, Since the Windows 10 Anniversary update, the Windows audio using VirtualBox under Linux has been terrible. Do not download the free version and expect to get this level of protection. Almost nothing we’ve discussed here applies to the free version. McAfee, for $20, lets you install protection on every device in your house.įor the rest of you gentle readers, please note that Miles and I are talking about Malwarebytes Premium here. If AVG is a bit much cost-wise, take a look at some of the other highly-rated antivirus products, like Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus, Symantec Norton AntiVirus Basic, or McAfee AntiVirus Plus. Running a good antivirus software alongside Malwarebytes Premium gives you much more certain protection. And, according to Malwarebytes themselves, it’s not designed to detect phishing attempts.īottom line? Trust, but supplement. Theoretically, Malwarebytes would detect it when you tried to run or install that downloaded file. One thing against it is that Malwarebytes doesn’t automatically scan downloaded files, even in the paid version, so malware can reside on your system, just waiting. That may explain why Malwarebytes detected just over half of the samples during my limited test. Some of them may refrain from activating if they detect antivirus software, others may just wait a certain length of time after installation. One problem with testing behavior-based detection is that the samples I have simply may not have exhibited malicious behaviors during my test period.

However, my simple tests definitely didn’t put all of this product’s high-end protection to work. When you don’t have much to go on from the labs, your own hands-on tests become more important. In any case, per its creators, it’s not designed to pass tests, and they don’t care if it doesn’t, as long as it protects their users. No one can give Malwarebytes a meaningful aggregate lab score based on so little. There’s just not enough information from the labs. Does it? Most testing hasn’t included it yet, because it’s so new. While the current version isn’t precisely an antivirus, it’s now intended to be powerful enough to take the place of your antivirus.
