ThreatLocker vs Malwarebytes for Business: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Daniel, CEO of Unique IT Pro. We're about 12 deep and my rating for ThreatLocker is a five. So before ThreatLocker, we used to just rely on basically taking away the local admin permission, not allowing users to have local admin. But we had a lot of challenges with people wanting that permission because they couldn't do things like install printers at home. So it was very challenging and it wasn't protecting. It was just a step in the right direction. But we're glad ThreatLocker came along. So when I basically was introduced to ThreatLocker, the application Whitelisting, the Elevation Control, those two made it a no-brainer for me to go with ThreatLocker. But then the additional stuff such as Ring Fencing, basically the ability to keep applications in their own lane and to use storage control. And when you look at ThreatLocker today and how they've evolved, I'm so happy that I selected ThreatLocker a few years ago. Going into any new solution, you always worry about not having the engineers and the time to take on such a solution, but ThreatLocker's onboarding where you spend some time with their engineer, it just made it so easy. We deployed. We met with him. Then we had a review 30 days later to secure the systems and he explained everything through the unified audit logs. And it just seemed like a blink of an eye, he was already using ThreatLocker internally and we were so ready to go to market. My advice to those considering ThreatLocker is it does so much. Don't feel overwhelmed. Don't feel like it's going to be too noisy. You got to go into it one component at a time. Do like we did. We did our test lab, then we did our internal systems before we got our feet wet with it, before we were ready to start taking on our clients. So I think you have to have that type of approach, phase into it, and don't try to just do the whole thing. Have your appetizer first before you get to your entree.

Gerald: My name is Gerald. I'm a freelance script writer in the film and television industry. I give Malwarebytes a four out of five rating. For more reviews, please look below. Previously, I used McAfee and I found it was giving me a whole lot of false positives for viruses, et cetera. And it seemed to be using a whole lot of memory and generally interfering with the functioning of the computer. So right now, what I use is Microsoft Defender which comes with Windows 10 and I use Malwarebytes. And technically, they're supposed to be compatible if you use a certain switch in Malwarebytes, which I did. And they both seem to work quite well. I chose Malwarebytes when I think they first began as a company and I had a problem with the computer that got really infected with malware. And so, I went on the web and started looking at programs that could clean that kind of malware. This was not really viruses, but malware. And the name Malwarebytes came up, so I purchased it. In those days, it was not too expensive. It was about $25 for a lifetime purchase. And I've had it ever since. They've since changed their pricing policy, but they've been really nice and grandfathered me in. So I'm have a lifetime subscription based on [inaudible 00:02:00], because I suppose I got in on the ground floor and I appreciate that from them. It works mostly in the background. So most of the time, I'm really, I'm not even conscious of it, which is I suppose the way it's supposed to be in a way. It does have some problems in the sense that it flags occasionally good sites as being a suspect or having malware in them when I know in fact they don't. And so, you have to white go to the trouble of white listing those sites. But generally, it works in the background and you're not really conscious of it. If malware does occur, you get a pop-up and it tells you that there is some malware. Fortunately, I never have virtually have no malware at all. So, I'm fortunate in that way. I think I would recommend it. There's a few caveats, which I've still don't quite understand. Malwarebytes itself like advertises itself as both being a virus, antiviral program, and a malware, anti-malware program. But in reading reports and reviews from magazines and such, they often say that it is not a virus cleaner and you still need an antiviral program. So I'm a bit confused about that, but I have both an antiviral program and Malwarebytes running. So I suppose here I have two levels of security, and two is better than one. So if Malwarebytes doesn't catch something, the antiviral program will or vice versa. So, I'd recommend it in that sense. There's no problem having to, if they don't conflict with each other.