Virus Guy  wrote in
news:m2b46t$n9e$1@speranza.aioe.org: 

> "David H. Lipman" wrote:
>  
>> There is no explicit nor implicit statement promoting the product
>> as an "anti virus".
> 
> It's far beyond the time that you (and others) drop the
> distinction between virus, worm, dropper and trojan when
> discussing how those items are detected by commercial software.  
> 
> While those items are different and have different characteristics
> and functionality, those differences are not relevent at all when
> the issue of their DETECTION and/or REMOVAL is being discussed. 
> And in case you haven't noticed, there is a whole industry that
> exists for that sole purpose of detecting and removing these
> "phenomena". 

Those differences are completely relevant to their detection and 
removal as both methods have to be tweaked for the intended purpose. 
Removing/detecting a virus is usually going to be different than 
removing a malicious trojan.
 
> Whether we label this software as "anti-virus" or "anti-malware"
> or anti-something-else is also irrelevent.

No, it's not. It describes perfectly what the application is 
specifically designed to help defend you against.
 
> In the end, whether it's Malwarebytes or something else, we are
> dealing with software that claims to be able to detect (and
> hopefully remove) malicious files and other remnants of malware
> presence (registry keys, etc) on a system.

Which it does.
 



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