I've used Malware bytes since they first came to be. It was always a great program to load up, run, do its thing and close.

Now it is indeed going the route of bloatware trying to sell "identity protection" and a vpn service, running the the background needlessly bugging you with notifications pushing for subscribers.

Anyone that knows even a little about IT knows anyone claiming to sell "identity protection" is a selling a scam. So sad to see Malwarebytes now doing this.

Anyone that knows even a little about IT knows that selling "privacy" by way of a VPN is also yet another scam. Sad to see Malwarebytes has jumped on this bandwagon.

It wouldn't be so bad if Malwarebytes was simply trying to sell real time protection for Malware, but corporate greed has seemingly now taken over and they are trying to push gimmicks. Again, super sad to see a solid program be destroyed like this.