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Downloaded free malware yesterday asking for fee today
wsg
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I downloaded the free version of malware yesterday and this morning I had an on screen message saying my free trial had ended and asked me for a renewal free I thought malware was free for any length of time?
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Try uninstalling it and installing the actual free version, maybe.
Only download from www.malwarebytes.org,
And don't forget rule #1: Type in that address - don't click on a link from a poster you don't know! Unless your browser shows you it's genuine when you hover over it.
There's only the one version that downloads, and there's a tick box during the install that asks if you want to try the pro version for free for 14 days.
It's ticked by default (if I remember right), so you have to untick it to use the free version.
Even if you run the trial version by mistake it's only the live scanning part that finishes after 14 days, you can use and update the on-demand scanner for ever more. It does keep giving you annoying pop-ups about the trial being finished though.
Moral of the story: always read carefully what is displayed on the screen.
As above, there is a little box you have to untick on the last stage of the installation.
Which is often not easy! I regularly service a friend's computer. He does not look properly.
It IS easy if folk DO look and read through stuff properly...
Learning disabilities don't help either. Not everyone can read or read efficiently.
Yep. A lot of people tend to just hit the next button without properly looking at what's above the next button.
Not meaning to be funny but if they can't read, what are they doing installing software on a computer/laptop? They could be installing anything on it.
Exactly. The result is often nasty and my friend goes into a panic.
I was woken up at 2am by an anxious phone call.
https://support.google.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1386831
"What does this mean? Can you come round. I will pay you £10 for the inconvenience."
As an experiment I went to malwarebytes.org then clicked on the white "Free Download" button which took me to the Download.com website which has a big green "Download Now" button on it. Clicked that and it opens a new page with various other bits of software advertised on it but after a couple of seconds a box pops up asking if I want to save the file or run it.
Definitely the correct installer going by the file name. Didn't bother to download it as I'm on a Mac at the moment so not much point
:rolleyes:
This is an absolute direct link to the file CLICK HERE
And It will download the installer for malware bytes. Follow the instructions carefully during setup.
I get no adverts extras or options to switch to non-free version when I tried it and I went up to the install part.
It is likely that you went to, or were redirected to, the CNET website in order to download Malwarebytes.
The following Malwarebytes forum post suggests a similar issue caused when someone has hit the wrong download button:
http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=122127&p=643041
malwarebytes.org not megabytes.org...
I'll err on the side of caution and say you've already got some malware that is preventing malwarebytes from downloading and installing...
That links directly to the file. So what exactly says ARO 2013? Thw webpage? The file you are asked to download? The installer program?
I have searched for this problem and there are a few references to Aero 2013. I have provided a mirror link below in case cnet is up to no good.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/malwarebytes-anti-malware/dl/7/?1
Again this is a direct link to the setup file.
I don't quite know whats going on but I have some nasty suspicions.