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Who runs Malwarebytes, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest antivirus software alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
McAfee

Measured from Malwarebytes’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Malwarebytes

Malwarebytes malwarebytes.com

All-in-one cybersecurity software for all your devices. Malwarebytes provides smarter antivirus, VPN, and scam detection for you and your family.

Wikidata: Internet security company

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Malwarebytes tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

6 of the 13 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
2 tools
  • A/B testing

    Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Malwarebytes

Fewer trackers than MalwarebytesNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Malwarebytes match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Malwarebytes adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 18 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
39 ms

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CMS
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://www.malwarebytes.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js
Fonts
Tag managers
A/B testing
  • VWO page source: dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=47F30B92F67986B864CDECB62CB32AF08AA65F05327AD7E75…
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Postmark TXT v=spf1 include:spf1.malwarebytes.com include:clients.cleverbridge.com…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=046136e12b20b6a648e63fdc548b5732c52ded8ba…
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