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  • Alternatives to Malwarebytes

    From Retroswim@21:2/121 to Utopian Galt on Thursday, June 26, 2025 22:06:10
    I cant poll my fidonet hub without turning off Malwarebytes.
    Any ideas for Windows 10/11?

    Don't use Malwarebytes, I guess.

    Defender AV and firewall in Windows 10/11 is perfectly cromulent to guard your system against all but the sketchiest of sketchy Limewire downloads and sophisticated skript kiddies!

    --- Ezycom V2.15g0 01FD0295
    * Origin: >> Pool's Open - The RetroSwim BBS (21:2/121)
  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to UTOPIAN GALT on Sunday, June 29, 2025 09:46:00
    @MSGID: <68601222.74349.fsx_gen@capcity2.synchro.net>
    I cant poll my fidonet hub without turning off Malwarebytes.

    Any ideas for Windows 10/11?

    I don't know of any alternatives but can confirm that Malwarebytes causes issues. I had a couple of downlinks get temporarily cut off because they
    were using it on their ends. Malwarebytes uses data picked up from
    crawlers that flag systems that carry older DOS programs whose EXE files
    are compressed with PKLITE and other EXE compressors... which means they
    could potentially flag a lot of BBSes and other websites that have older shareware available for download.

    I used to allow people to download without having a user account but cannot
    do that any more because of scanners like Malwarebytes.


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