Pricing and OS Supportīitdefender, ESET, and Kaspersky all cost $39.99 per year for one license, and the same is true with Malwarebytes. A menu down the left side lets you view recent scans, check what's in quarantine, or tweak the program's sparse set of configuration settings. But unlike ProtectWorks, there's just one kind of scan, a quick scan for active malware. Like ProtectWorks AntiVirus, this product has a main window that's all about scanning for malware. Paying for the premium edition gets you real-time protection, automatic updates, and blocking of adware and potentially unwanted applications, or PUAs.
That can be handy if another antivirus utility detected a threat but failed to fully eliminate it. As with Malwarebytes Free on Windows, you can download this program and run a scan without paying anything.