ARO 2011 - Help, please?

[Dystopian]

I began the Malwarebytes download and the heading/description was ARO 2011:
http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?part=dl-10804572&subj=dl&tag=button

"ARO 2011 is a Five Star Rated Download with over Ten Million users worldwide. This free version fixes up to a hundred different registry issues."

Malwarebytes was not mentioned, and I don't recall this happening when I downloaded the free version on my old computer.
Is it still the same thing? I didn't download it.

I'm easily confused, and don't want to proceed unless I know it's okay.

Thank you in advance.


peace~

[SecularMotion]

1. Sounds like a scam

From the comments -

"THUMBS WAY DOWN on CNET and Aro for this extortionate bait-and-switch. CNET permits Aro to run an ad banner that is not clearly defined as such. It appears on the same download page for CNET's-5-star-approved Belarc freeware. Aro's download button was much more prominent than the Belarc download button. I selected it with the belief I was downloading the Belarc. Once on the Aro page, I still thought it was connected to Belarc, since it was free and was scanning the registry. Aro 2011 allegedly detected thousands of registry errors. It's "free" fix was for the first 100, after which a pop up occurs. At that point, the user is subject to extortion--buy the license and the remainder will be fixed. Who wants to risk the chance that the 100 "fixed" errors have compromised the system if the remainder are not also repaired? After reading others' reviews, I'm now wondering what I've done to my computer and if there is a way to undo it. This merits FTC intervention."

http://download.cnet.com/ARO-2011/3000-2086_4-10183947.html

[mockmonkey]

2. link to real malwarebytes site here

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

[Earth Bound Misfit]

3. Run. Run far. Run fast. Run far & fast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG0ochx16Dg&feature=related

[woo me with science]

4. Were you at a different site than the author's site?

Even some reputable sites sometimes have very unfortunately placed ads on them that are easy to click instead of the link you actually want. It sounds from the posts above that this is malware and that CNET screwed up by allowing the ad.

[Dystopian]

5. Thank you!

Thanks to all who took the time to assist me!


I now have the real Malwarebytes....:-)

I also enjoyed the video!!:D
I had seven bad things on my computer....now gone!

You are all awesome .....

peace~

[ohheckyeah]

6. I don't know about that but

when Malwarebytes updated today it crashed my computer. Evidently there is some problem since I found other people reporting the same thing on the internet so I just removed Malwarebytes from my computer.

[hobbit709]

7. Didn't crash any of mine.

Do you uninstall everything that causes a glitch during an update? In that case you shouldn't be running Windoze.

[ohheckyeah]

9. It's the

ONLY update on anything that has ever crashed my computer. I'm not interested in dealing with a program that causes a crash on restart from an update.

That was a rather snarky reply....why?

[hobbit709]

12. Then you've been incredibly lucky on your installing.

I'm a firm believer in Murphy so I'm pleasantly surprised when something doesn't glitch.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

8. No problem here updating 3 machines.

:shrug:

[ohheckyeah]

10. I don't know what the problem is.

I did a Google search and saw others were having the problem and it wasn't worth the hassle to me to jump through the hoops to find out why.

I have Windows 7 64 bit so maybe that was part of the problem...don't know. I've never had any program crash my computer on update.

[Old and In the Way]

I think MalwareBytes might be integrating a new security package on a trial basis.

I noticed that the latest update gave me the option to run a new type of scanner that seems to monitor some IP address activity in the background and flags a notice that it has blocked some IP address that it considers to be potentially malicious. It hasn't affected any website content from viewing, but it does pop-up with a message, then disappears. So I'm not sure what's it's really doing...in the past AMB only ran when I asked it to. It's now running as a process. I suspect that, at some point, it will tell me my trial period is up and then show me that it's blocked 4,341 potential threats and do I to buy this kind of threat protection software?

[Old and In the Way]

13. Delete - dupe

[trud]

11. boo to cnet, yeah to malware bytes

I got caught the same way by cnet - I went to download something and didn't realize I was downloading some stupid thing they were running an ad for. Never again.

I have never had any trouble with malwarebytes antimalware and it has saved my pc several times. I downlloaded it from their site.