Once installed the user is presented with a window featuring a blue city skyline in soft hues of blue and green creating a pleasant backdrop not too visually interesting as to be distracting. To use full-featured product, you have to purchase a license.

That being said an anti-virus solution is not solely dependent on price but how well it protects the device it is installed on. If looking to install Malwarebytes Premium on multiple devices the 79.99 price tag may be off putting when comparing its other products that emphasize multiple licensing for larger families. Malwarebytes has the option to purchase five licenses for 79.99 USD. Typically, offerings that include more than one license, here 10 seems to be the magic number, or to protect every device in a household can cost anywhere between 50 and 60 USD as is seen with Sophos and McAfee.

Like many of Malwarebytes’s competitors including Kaspersky, Bitdefender, and Trend Micro to protect one Windows or Mac device will cost 39.99 USD per year.

This year saw the release of version 4.3 and this publication deemed it fit to do a full review of Malwarebytes Premium to see how it compares to their competition.Unless you are specifically using the free version of a specific anti-virus suite, price is always an important factor to consider. In 2019 when Malwarebytes released the fourth version of it's incredibly popular anti-virus engine much changed and generally all for the better.

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