

However, if anything happens to the company and they liquidate assets, your information would be sold to the purchasing company. Malwarebytes says that they’ll only provide this to law enforcement or to meet security and information standards. However, the program does collect personal information, which may alarm users. This personal data includes your name, address, contact details, and banking information. Malwarebytes 4.0 protects your private information from hackers that use viruses or other malicious code to infect your computer and steal this information without your permission. In place of seeing generic names that most anti-viruses display, you’ll see a short description of what the malware that’s detected is and what it can do to your computer. So no need to keep this "current" version around.Malwarebytes main usage to catch and prevent malware from appearing on your computer. But if you do, that will probably be after it has been updated and there is a new version anyway. Why? Well, hopefully you'll never need it again. If those two things are impossible, then there is a free version of Malwarebytes that can be installed and run once and it will attempt to clear the problem. If that doesn't work, I would take your Mac to an expert, such as the Genius Bar. If you do get malware despite all of these precautions, then I would first look for uninstall instructions online. Just follow some basics when installing software ( ) and also keep in mind that macOS already has anti-malware going on at the system level ( ).


Are you having a problem? In general, you don't need any anti-malware software running on your Mac, taking up processor time, power, and handling your files on an ongoing basis.
