Hmmm, according to their 3.0 announcement blog entry
here,
...if you are an existing customer with an active subscription or a lifetime license to Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, you will keep your existing price and get a free upgrade to Malwarebytes 3.0. If you have both an Anti-Malware and an Anti-Exploit subscription, we will upgrade you to a single subscription to Malwarebytes 3.0, reduce your subscription price and add more licenses to your subscription.
I’m an existing subscriber of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. How much do I have to pay?
You don’t have to pay anything extra. Even though Malwarebytes 3.0 sells for $39.99, we are grandfathering ALL our existing customers at their original price. So if your subscription is currently $24.95, that is the price it will remain at, and you can get Malwarebytes 3.0 without having to pay anything extra. Your existing license key will work automatically with Malwarebytes 3.0.
I have a Malwarebytes Anti-Malware lifetime license. Will it work for Malwarebytes 3.0?
Yes! Simply install Malwarebytes 3.0 on top of your Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and your lifetime license will automatically apply to Malwarebytes 3.0.
How do I upgrade my Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to Malwarebytes 3.0?
Simply download and run the installer from here. Malwarebytes 3.0 will automatically upgrade Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.x to Malwarebytes 3.0 and apply its license key accordingly.
How do I upgrade to Malwarebytes 3.0 if I also have Anti-Exploit or Anti-Ransomware installed?
Simply download and run the installer from here. Malwarebytes 3.0 will automatically remove the old Anti-Malware, Anti-Exploit and Anti-Ransomware and upgrade them all to Malwarebytes 3.0.
So for existing subscribers and lifetime license owners, this upgrade is not automatic - you will not be notified an upgrade is available and it will not be offered through the program. So make sure you visit the site (see Corrine's links above).
I have seen a couple bugs already. Under the Protection tab, Scan for Rootkits was disabled. That may be because it was disabled in the last version due to extending the scan times too much. But when I click the "Restore Defaults" button, it does not enable that option. In fact, the Restore Defaults button does not flip the Scan for Rootkits option regardless how I set it manually.
On top of that, none of the More Information (?) buttons on that page work. You can get to the Help/More Information page from the Dashboard, however, where we learn Scan for Rootkits is disabled by default.
I might suggest everyone enable it once, scan, and if clean, disable it again (though it really does not slow scanning down significantly when enabled).
Two other minor quibbles. Well, one minor quibble and a small conundrum. The quibble is that the upgrade installer did not fully clean up the old installation. It removed the Malwarebytes AntiExploit folder, but left the old Malwarebytes Antimalware folder orphaned on my system. I note this happens to me often because I install my security programs under a folder called Security Stuff, not in the normal default installation folders.
The conundrum is how do we abbreviate this new program's name? I note the main program is no longer "Malwarebytes Antimalware" which is commonly known around the world as "MBAM". The program now is just Malwarebytes. But "MB" is commonly used to abbreviate motherboard or megabyte, or Milton Bradley
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