Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus

[12Owen8]

I have a vista home premium OS with the Vista Service pack 2  I currently have Norton Antivirus 

My Question: Is there any reason for me to have an exe program from Malewarebytes as part of my Norton product or any Norton updates, anti-virus updates, anti-spyware updates, etc?

What I mean is that at no time has Norton ever installed any type of exe file that woudl be part of malewarebytes, right?

[Quads]

Hi

Norton and Malwarebytes are 2 different programs, 2 different companies.

Quads 

[Wikipedian]

I have NIS 2009 but in the process tab under task manager, there is NO malwarebyte.exe or anything containing the word malwarebyte.  It could be part of Malwarebyte.

[12Owen8]

So there is no way Norton is installing any files from malewarebytes? Did Norton buy malewarebytes at any point?

thanks to those who responded. Any chance a Norton staffer might address this?

Message Edited by 12Owen8 on 08-10-2009 04:29 PM

[Quads · Accepted solution]

I have told you,  They are 2 different companies

the executable is "mbam.exe" anyway

Quads 

[12Owen8]

I understand the part about two "different" companies, but wondering if Norton bought malewarebytes and maybe soem "norton" items still have the malewarebytes aspect to them. You know like when Adobe and macromedia combined. You still get macromedia stuff from adobe.

I just want to make sure

[delphinium Norton Fighter]

No.  As Quads has said,  there is no connection between them at all.

[mo]

Why do you ask about malwarebytes??

It is often recommended as a "backup" for NIS/NAV on these forums but you have to go to it's site or Cnet and download it seperately.

[Stu]

It sure could be handy but those are two seperate companies indeed

[12Owen8]

Thanks all

Here I why I was a little concerned. I had gone into the windows  function that shows programs that run at startup. I had seen in the listing of programs that there was an exe file from malewarebytes that was in the programs that run at start up. Since I don't have malewarebytes installed, I thought I could delete it from the start up programs. I think I also "disabled" it. But after I did that, I freaked out and thought what if this was some part of the antispyware portion of Norton? So I looked in program files (C:\Windows\Programfiles) and did not see a folder for mlaewarebytes. So being concerned that it might be part of Nortons antispyware/virus function I thought oh great, I just messed up my Norton. But if you all say that it is not some sub function of a Norton Program, I'll feel relieved that I did'nt blank up my Norton

Message Edited by 12Owen8 on 08-11-2009 06:19 PM