Malwarebytes Premium Trial.

[Tilly2]

I wanted to do a scan this morning and when I opened Malwarebytes is said there was a new version. I accepted the new version but it seems I now have a Premium Trial for thirteen days. I have just done my scan and things were fine but what will happen at the end of the trial period? I seem to have 'lost' the free version and am not trialling something which, presumably, will need to be paid for.

Can I just ignore it and continue to use it after the thirteen days?

[rowanwitch]

It will revert to the free version after the trial period

[dannyk13]

Doubtful Tilly

[Tilly2]

I was hoping it would revert to the free version, Rowan. Thank you for that.

What's doubtful, Danny? Do you not think it will revert to the free version?

[Tilly2]

^^^ 'am not trialling' should be 'am now trialling'^^^

[Tilly2]

Thank you too, Murdo. I was afraid that I might have to uninstall it and then reinstall the free version.

[Buenchico]

It does revert to the free version after the trial ends.

It's worth noting though that AdwCleaner (which used to be a rival program to Malwarebytes Anti-Malware) has now been bought up by Malwarebytes and so should be every bit as good as MA-M. (It's probably identical to the free version of MA-M in fact). However it's completely free, so you don't need to mess about with trial periods:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/

[Tilly2]

Thanks, Chris. I'll have a look at that.

[Tilly2]

Can I have them both available on my PC, Chris, or will one impede the other in some way?

[Buenchico]

Since they're both 'run on demand' (rather than 'run in the background'), you'd only ever be using one at a time, so they can't cause any problems with each other.

[Tilly2]

Thank you all.

[Guilbert53]

Just open Malwarebytes, select Settings, select My Account, then select the option to switch to the free version.

Easy.

Note these are the instructions for the latest version of Malwarebytes.