Subj : Alternatives to Malwareby
To   : UTOPIAN GALT
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Jun 29 2025 09:46 am

> @MSGID: <68601222.74349.fsx_gen@capcity2.synchro.net>
> I cant poll my fidonet hub without turning off Malwarebytes.

> Any ideas for Windows 10/11?

I don't know of any alternatives but can confirm that Malwarebytes causes
issues.  I had a couple of downlinks get temporarily cut off because they
were using it on their ends.  Malwarebytes uses data picked up from
crawlers that flag systems that carry older DOS programs whose EXE files
are compressed with PKLITE and other EXE compressors... which means they
could potentially flag a lot of BBSes and other websites that have older
shareware available for download.

I used to allow people to download without having a user account but cannot
do that any more because of scanners like Malwarebytes.


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