I think that I've been pretty clear about it in this thread. You might want to read back through it.
Okay, I guess we'll do it that way then. Allow me to address some things you've said, then.
Download EasyFind and do a search for "MalwareBytes" on your Mac if you have MalwareBytes installed. You will find as many as 24 files (the number, oddly, varies for each user) for MalwareBytes installed all over your system.
I can tell you exactly what they're doing, if you have concerns about them. Essentially, they're all components that provide various functionality, such as scanning, securely storing settings in a way that they can't be tampered with by malware, etc. Is it more complex than AdwareMedic was? Yes. Is it more secure and more capable than AdwareMedic was? Hugely so!
(Hint, MalwareBytes is making money off of you even if you only have the free version.)
What?! How, exactly, do we do that? The free version is
free. We don't make money on it. There's no advertising, we're not collecting and selling data, or any other nonsense that you may be insinuating. That's insulting, to be honest. We don't make money unless you actually purchase a Premium license, and yet we still make the basic scanning and remediation free, with no strings or time limits attached. Helping our users remove malware for free is a fundamental philosophy of the company that I strongly agree with, and is one of the reasons I was proud to join Malwarebytes!
Run MalwareBytes. How long does it take to do a scan? About 10 to 15 seconds? Compare that to any decent (or even most worthless) legitimate anti-virus programs, which can take an hour or even much more to do a scan. Malwarebytes can only be doing the most cursory of scans..and it is. MalwareBytes doesn't look inside any files at all. It can only look for specific file names in specific places on your hard drive.
You've got a major assumption there that is totally wrong. You say that Malwarebytes doesn't look at file content, and only looks for specific file names. This is blatantly false. There are a variety of different rules that we use to search for malware, and many of them actually do scan file content.
The speed is due to the fact that we take location of files into consideration. We actually have a KB article to address this question:
https://support.malwarebytes.com/docs/DOC-1293
It's exactly as I told you...and both the DetectX folks and the MalwareBytes folks won't deny it if asked directly...those products don't scan within any files or apps.
Ummm... yes, I would, and just did. If you'd asked, I would have told you. And note that even AdwareMedic used content-based scanning rules, so you can't claim to have based this on old information.
I can't speak for DetectX, but I should probably let Phil Stokes know about this topic in case he needs to clarify any erroneous details about his software as well.
you have to take any articles from companies that are trying to sell you anti-virus software, especially software with dubious anti-virus abilities, with a huge grain of salt.
You know that I write most of the Mac-related content for the Malwarebytes blog, right? Are you saying I'm not to be trusted anymore?
when you have a company, like MalwareBytes, that is basically a company that caters to Windows users, and only recently has started to sell a product for the Macintosh, you have to be concerned that they even understand that the Macintosh isn't like Windows.
Again, this feels like a personal attack, since I'm still actively involved in directing the development and doing the threat research.
This is all very disappointing. I've always thought we had a good relationship, and I've always been honest with you. Back in 2015, I told you: "Right now, I'm mostly dealing with post-infection solutions (though I plan to change that in the future)." It's disappointing that as I'm doing more and more work on creating technology to catch infections before they happen, I'm getting criticized for it.
