Malwarebytes v1.60 released

[David H. Lipman]

I know, but where Zo uses "rip off", I use this description.

I read that Google pays 1 billion dollars (1.000 million dollars) over
three years to Mozilla (three times as much as before).
And as Asa Dotzler is speaking in very admiring terms on the advertising
policy of Google, I wonder how independent he is nowadays:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2011/12/firefox_and_google_-.html
(you don't have to be under the same banner to be subordinate.)

Another of those many changes of policy (and attitude) at Mozilla?
I have already found a replacement for Firefox.
I am now looking for a replacement for Thunderbird, without hurry.
;-)

Asa Dotzler is a d!ckhead.

I think the amount is more like 300 Million USD over 3 years.

 

[Dustin]

FredW used his keyboard to write :

Who's crying Wolf? I see a new feature that says "incremental"
(something that they have promising to institute for at least the last
6-7 years) and I"m thinking, at last and then see you have pay for it.
As in my reply to David, It appears that they are talking about "auto
schedule". How is that incremental,when the size of the downloads are
just about the size of the application. (Ask the dial up customers and
see if they consider those downloads incremental?)

I really have nothing to say either way. I'm neutral, just excuse the
laughter in the background.

 

[Dustin]

Hey my freeware version get's updated automatically daily at 5:00 PM
followed by an auto scan and it doesn't cost me a cent or the click of
a button and NO I haven't altered the program in any way. Now why
would I want to pay for something that I already get for FREE? Like I
said, you haven't a clue..........

Windows scheduled tasks... eh? I say, the later OSes take all the fun out
of it.

 

[Dustin]

for each update. (and by the way, they have been promising to institute
it for only the last 6-7 years, so that is what I thought this addition
was. But from what I see per the demonstration on the site, what they

Hi Zo...

Malwarebytes hasn't been around for 6 or 7 years yet. Just speaking as
another former employee.

 

[Dustin]

The auto update caused problems on my XP/SP3 PC. System Restore did not
solve the problem and a Control Panel uninstall did not work after the
restore. I had to use mbam-clean.exe to remove the hosed version of 1.6
and run a clean install. It seems to be behaving now.

Hi Dennis.

Can you be more specific on the problems?

 

[occam]

No, I do not think this is it.


Yes. However, in the paid for version you only get the sigs which you do
not already have (small download). In the free version, you get the
whole set (currently > 7MB, used to be 3 MB when I started using MBAM)

The bottom line is, Malwarebytes is a very good program, with
a freeware option. I'm happy with it.

Yes, we are in agreement there.

 

[Shadow]

Another of those many changes of policy (and attitude) at Mozilla?
I have already found a replacement for Firefox.
I am now looking for a replacement for Thunderbird, without hurry.
;-)

I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. It's an excellent substitute for
ThunderGoogle.
[]'s

 

[David H. Lipman]

Another of those many changes of policy (and attitude) at Mozilla?
I have already found a replacement for Firefox.
I am now looking for a replacement for Thunderbird, without hurry.
;-)

I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. It's an excellent substitute for
ThunderGoogle.
[]'s

Why at v2.x and not v9.0 ?

 

[Shadow]

Another of those many changes of policy (and attitude) at Mozilla?
I have already found a replacement for Firefox.
I am now looking for a replacement for Thunderbird, without hurry.
;-)

I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. It's an excellent substitute for
ThunderGoogle.
[]'s

Why at v2.x and not v9.0 ?

It's small, fast, and I can't find a "geo" in about:config.

The learning curve happened years ago. All the privacy tweaks
included.
I use the same profile in all my OS (debian wheezy, Ubuntu
10.04 and win XP SP3)
And it sends and receives mail, and supports the spell
checkers I use. What more do I need ? I'd still be using Mailwarrior
if it was multi-platform and I didn't have to setup a ssl service to
access my accounts.
They say it's insecure. Maybe you could send me something
malicious as a test ? I would not mind. Maybe I'm being stubborn about
upgrading.
[]'s

 

[David H. Lipman]

Another of those many changes of policy (and attitude) at Mozilla?
I have already found a replacement for Firefox.
I am now looking for a replacement for Thunderbird, without hurry.
;-)

I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. It's an excellent substitute for
ThunderGoogle.
[]'s

Why at v2.x and not v9.0 ?

It's small, fast, and I can't find a "geo" in about:config.

The learning curve happened years ago. All the privacy tweaks
included.
I use the same profile in all my OS (debian wheezy, Ubuntu
10.04 and win XP SP3)
And it sends and receives mail, and supports the spell
checkers I use. What more do I need ? I'd still be using Mailwarrior
if it was multi-platform and I didn't have to setup a ssl service to
access my accounts.
They say it's insecure. Maybe you could send me something
malicious as a test ? I would not mind. Maybe I'm being stubborn about
upgrading.
[]'s

LOL - I wouln't send you anything malwaicious but YOU can continue sending me "the good
stuff" ;-)

I just wanted to know why you were STILL at that old version.

 

[Shadow]

I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. It's an excellent substitute for
ThunderGoogle.
[]'s

Why at v2.x and not v9.0 ?

.....
They say it's insecure. Maybe you could send me something
malicious as a test ? I would not mind. Maybe I'm being stubborn about
upgrading.
[]'s

LOL - I wouln't send you anything malwaicious but YOU can continue sending me "the good
stuff" ;-)

The bad guys must have me blacklisted. I have not had a sample
for ages. Only phishing stuff.
Sorry about that. I enjoy following the links ..... and your
analysis.
[]'s

 

[FredW]

Another of those many changes of policy (and attitude) at Mozilla?
I have already found a replacement for Firefox.
I am now looking for a replacement for Thunderbird, without hurry.
;-)

I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. It's an excellent substitute for
ThunderGoogle.
[]'s

I use Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.15 portable
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable/localization#legacy
I can use all my preferred add-ons.
I see no reason to join the race for higher version numbers.

 

[Shadow]

Another of those many changes of policy (and attitude) at Mozilla?
I have already found a replacement for Firefox.
I am now looking for a replacement for Thunderbird, without hurry.
;-)

I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. It's an excellent substitute for
ThunderGoogle.
[]'s

I use Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.15 portable
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable/localization#legacy
I can use all my preferred add-ons.
I see no reason to join the race for higher version numbers.

Out of curiosity, type "geo" in the about:config searchbar. If
it exists , and is "on", have you ever been warned about tracking ?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-google-com-loc-json-not-used/5134619#5134619

Wonder how this "feature" helps me when posting or receiving
an email message ? Maybe it searches for the cheapest ISP in the block
?

[]'s
PS Not sure which version of Thunderbird started using it. You
might be "malware" free. Ooops:
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_geolocation
Well, maybe you built the feature "out" when you compiled your
portable version.

 

[FredW]

Out of curiosity, type "geo" in the about:config searchbar. If
it exists , and is "on", have you ever been warned about tracking ?
Wonder how this "feature" helps me when posting or receiving
an email message ? Maybe it searches for the cheapest ISP in the block

Well, maybe you built the feature "out" when you compiled your
portable version.

geo.enabled - now changed from (default) "true" to (user set) "false"

I did not make the portable version myself.
(see above link)

Thank you for the warning.
;-)

 

[FromTheRafters]

I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. It's an excellent substitute for
ThunderGoogle.
[]'s

Why at v2.x and not v9.0 ?
....
They say it's insecure. Maybe you could send me something
malicious as a test ? I would not mind. Maybe I'm being stubborn about
upgrading.
[]'s

LOL - I wouln't send you anything malwaicious but YOU can continue sending me "the good
stuff" ;-)

The bad guys must have me blacklisted. I have not had a sample
for ages.

Much of today's malware gets served up from a server that checks what
you are running and decides from there what to serve you. IOW, you're
using the wrong bait. )

[...]

 

[RayLopez99]

BTW:  Don't forget, I was a Malwarebytes' paid employee.

Why did they fire you? Incompetence maybe?

For the record, my free Malwarebytes updates every 2 weeks the entire
database (takes about 30 seconds) so I don't see what the fuss is all
about...I guess incremental is smaller downloads. In any event
Malwarebytes does find some stuff other programs don't. At some point
I might upgrade to the non-free version. On one of my machines I
don't get downloads from Microsoft for Windows 7 since it's a Thai
(free) version, so I have to make sure that machine is more secure by
perhaps adding a paid program to it--but for now I have not noticed
anything amiss (if I have a trojan it sure is slick because I've not
seen any damage to my bank accounts or any usual traffic to indicate
my machine is owned as a zombie).

RL

 

[RayLopez99]

Hi Zo...

Malwarebytes hasn't been around for 6 or 7 years yet. Just speaking as
another former employee.

Why did they fire you Dustin? Incompetence maybe?

RL

 

[RayLopez99]

Another of those many changes of policy (and attitude) at Mozilla?
I have already found a replacement for Firefox.
I am now looking for a replacement for Thunderbird, without hurry.
;-)

        I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. It's an excellent substitute for
ThunderGoogle.
        []'s

Thunderchicken I found, when retrieving Gmail, is very very slow and
sluggish but to its credit it does get the job done. But it's
terrible on my Multi-core Pentium machine running Windows 7. Still,
it's free and I use it just to check Gmail (I will not swtich from
Outlook for my regular business POP3 mail account).

RL

 

[FromTheRafters]

Why did they fire you?

Can you cite proof that David was fired? Perhaps you should be more
careful what you type? A simple comma between 'why' and 'did' would
change the whole flavor of your query to something less libelous.

Incompetence maybe?

Speculation like this on its own may be okay, but coupled with the
above, this question just gives more credence to the idea that you are
committing libel with your first statement.

 

[FromTheRafters]

Why did they fire you Dustin? Incompetence maybe?

More libel.

....are you trying to get slapped down Ray?