Can Malwarebytes and Kaspersky coexist?

[keavlar]

Hey all. 
If you have Malwarebytes Premium and Kaspersky antivirus, can they coexist? 
Will they protect it at the same time? 
Or one will be useless?

[Semper]

They can coexist together, however updates may temporarily cause conflicts, as is the risk with running more than one solution of any kind. It's not unheard of for them to report false positives of the other as well.

All that said, I do believe it's unnecessary. A little bit of forethought, and intelligent web browsing, along with Windows built in Defender should be sufficient, having two additional layers of protection is going to be overkill, and unnecessary use of system resources.

[keavlar]

Just now, Semper said:

They can coexist together, however updates may temporarily cause conflicts, as is the risk with running more than one solution of any kind. It's not unheard of for them to report false positives of the other as well.

All that said, I do believe it's unnecessary. A little bit of forethought, and intelligent web browsing, along with Windows built in Defender should be sufficient, having two additional layers of protection is going to be overkill, and unnecessary use of system resources.

I am asking cause someone, about a year ago suggested me to do that, on this forum. 
I also use the Comodo firewall.
I am asking cause most of the time I see notifications of a block from Malwarebytes only, so that is why I wondered 

[kirashi]

11 minutes ago, keavlar said:

Hey all. 
If you have Malwarebytes Premium and Kaspersky antivirus, can they coexist? 
Will they protect it at the same time? 
Or one will be useless?

Yes, they will happily coexist (as of writing this) and are a decent way to stay protected when coupled with CommonSense™.

[keavlar]

Just now, kirashi said:

Yes, they will happily coexist (as of writing this) and are a decent way to stay protected when coupled with CommonSense™.

Well, I don't know how to get infected, unless to doanload a game or softwareon piratebay XD.

But I do see some blocks, when downloading a movie with torrent from a save website. 

Or watching a website, like anime, kissanime.

[Semper]

Malicious downloads, hijacked or sketchy websites, infected devices.

Malwarebytes has a high level overview on the subject if you'd like to read more.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malware/

[LogicalDrm]

I don't see why not. MVB is not antivirus. Two AVs can fight and flag each others components as harmful.

[Mark Kaine]

10 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

I don't see why not. MVB is not antivirus. Two AVs can fight and flag each others components as harmful.

... Honestly, that's what I would think too,  but wasn't the case for me.

 

 

I had Malwarebytes (still have it) free version and Kaspersky free version... And the first thing Kaspersky did was deleting a "threat"  which was a trojan definition *within* Malwarebytes... 

 

And the second thing it did was not allowing me to launch Steam...! 

For some reason?

 

It was a nightmare frankly lol.

 

Will never use this again.  

 

 

I'm using Malwarebytes and Windows defender (which is way better than people want to give it credit for) now since 2 years and have zero issues,  because it's like you said they really aren't the same thing,  Malwarebytes is not an AV. (even though it potentially finds the same things as Windows defender) 

[tech.guru]

It's more about active scans slowing down performance as they can create file scan loops.

 

Only one product should have its active scanner enabled at a time.