There have been many discussions about bugs in MBAM v2.x and whether we 
should "switch" from v1.75 to the newer v2.20 product.
Although Malwarebytes has not yet officially retired v1.75, Malwarebytes is 
now applying signatures for "file level scanning" that are v2.x dependent. 
That means v1.75 will now fail to detect many files in which the new v2.x 
signature constructs are applied to. This can create a False Negative 
situation where v1.75 will fail detect malware on a PC not because they 
aren't yet detected but because the that version will not detect them. At 
this time this also is a problem with Virus Total. They are using a v1.75 
based engine so files that are detected with v2.20 will not be shown to be 
detected on Virus Total as well.

Malwarebytes has been silent about this change and that's not good. It is my 
opinion that applying signatures for "file level scanning" that are v2.x 
dependent should NOT have been implemented until v 1.75 was officially 
retired.

Therefore it is my "strong" recommendation that all users, using the free or 
paid-for version of MBAM v1.75, must now move to v2.20.

MBAM v1.75 is no longer reliable, viable or "safe" to use.


-- 
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp 

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