Bitdefender working with Malwarebytes Premium

Davidtoo

Hi folks, I know in the past there has been a controversy over using Malwarebytes with bitdefender, some say it's fine, others say not recommended. I have used the two together for about two years, since I ditched Kaspersky. A few weeks ago, on a pretty fast 2 year old computer with a SSD drive, I ran into my first problem. I was attempting to install the latest Windows 11 software and did so. For some reason, I never figured out, the computer crashed. I could not get the computer recovery to work,so I ended up having to reinstall Windows. I did so, and two days later my computer crashed again, so had to reinstall Windows again after completely wiping all data off of my drive (still reinstalling data with carbonite, over 550 G).

I never had notice of any malware from Bitdefender or Malwarebytes.  I am wondering what caused the crashes. I have read that when two antivirus programs compete for the same space to fight invading malware, it can degrade the ability of both antiviruses, then if you had only one. So two questions:

(1) Are Malwarebytes and Bitdefender a good fit together, or should I Use only one or the other. Even if I don't notice the computer slowing down or having an issue, are the abilities of the two antiviruses compromised because of the way the antivirus programs compete with each other.

(2) Could running the two antivirus programs together have caused some sort of conflict that crashed my system beyond being able to be recovered?

After reinstalling windows I did run diagnostics and everything seems good. I don't want to give up on either Bitdefender or Malwarebytes, but I will give up on one of them if I am better off than with both of them.

Has anything changed about their compatibility?

Thanks Much

Davetoo

Scott

Hi @Davidtoo

Starting from @Alexandru_BD post on Sept 18th, could help as far as what you want to do. It could have been any one of those 3 you mentioned that had an update that caused the issue(s), Windows, BD or MBAM.

No offense to you, Davidtoo, not getting on your case, but I am closing this thread to any further replies. You have the information you need in the thread below, as this subject has been hashed over to many times over the years. We are about the Bitdefender product itself on this forum, and not Bitdefender...and, or plus... Thank you for understanding. You are free to start any thread that deals with Bitdefender itself, settings, problems, accolades, ideas, etc :)

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/96848/problem-with-a-malware-virus-on-my-desktop

And if needed, support can be reached here:

https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/

Kind regards,

Scott

Flexx

You can set exclusion of malwarebytes folder and files in bitdefender. Have a look at below stated link by malwarebytes.

https://support.malwarebytes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038522974-Malwarebytes-for-Windows-antivirus-exclusions-list

As @Scott said, this post will be closed for further response. If you want to reopen this post, kindly contact any moderator or admin @Alexandru_BD, @Mike_BD

Regards