Question Is malwarebytes (not premium) good enough for security?

[Dumgamer234]

I know I have to use my brain so don't call up stupid posts. I'm asking if it is good enough for basic defense as I occasionally download things and I'm in a rush so I forget to double check its history like when I installed a PUP with another piece of software using softpedia. Lol I accidentally used that when there was the official install directly below it.

 

[helpstar]

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there are better free anti virus scanner, because malwarebytes free edition has no real-time protection
malwarebytes is fine to remove or detect malware in manual scans

 

[geofelt]

Defender is very good and efficient for known viruses.
Next to your brain, that is the first line of defense.
Malware bytes can be used on occasion to check for malware.
I don't think continuing monitoring with malwarebytes also is all that useful.