Malwarebytes vs. NordLayer

Malwarebytes

Malwarebytes

167 Reviews and Ratings

NordLayer

NordLayer

21 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Malwarebytes	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	Malwarebytes is a antimalware application for home and small businesses, which blocks viruses, malware, hackers, viruses, and malicious websites.	$119.99 per year 3 devices
NordLayer	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	NordLayer provides cybersecurity tools for businesses of any size or work model developed by the standard of NordVPN. NordLayer helps organizations secure networks and enhance internet security and modernizes network and resource access with technical improvements aligning with the best regulatory compliance standards. Helping organizations to adopt FWaaS, ZTNA, and SWG principles, NordLayer is focused on the Security Service Edge of cybersecurity services.…	$8 per month if Yearly plan per user

Pricing

Malwarebytes

NordLayer

Editions & Modules

Teams - Sole proprietor: $119.99
per year 3 devices
Teams - Boutique business: $399.99
per year 10 devices
Teams - Small office: $799.99
per year 20 devices

Lite: $8
per month if Yearly plan per user
Core: $11
per month if Yearly plan per user
Premium: $14
per month if Yearly plan per user
Custom: x
per month if Yearly plan per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Malwarebytes	NordLayer
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

All plans include a 60-day money back guarantee. 1st year discount available for the Small office plan.

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Community Pulse
	Malwarebytes	NordLayer
Considered Both Products	Malwarebytes WM William C Mueller Senior Systems Engineer Chose Malwarebytes Sentinel One is streamlined, with a minimal resource footprint, and it appears to work well, offering slightly more comprehensive protection than Malwarebytes. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Serres Systems Administrator Chose Malwarebytes We chose Malwarebytes for Teams which offered a significant savings compared to other scanners Incentivized Helpful? Pete Maddox Managing Member Chose Malwarebytes Night and day difference. Low overhead, not a single breach in over 5 years with Malwarebytes. Incentivized Helpful? David Young, M.A. President Chose Malwarebytes Use it and forget it...no constant advertisements. Incentivized Helpful? VK vinoth kumar Sr system administrator Chose Malwarebytes Mcafee usually takes a long time to scan each system as we usually have scheduled systems scan every weekend. But if we want to scan a particular system in minimal time we usually go with Malwarebytes to get the job done. Incentivized Helpful? RJ Roxanne Jacobs Executive Director Chose Malwarebytes We have used Malwarebytes for many years. Originally, we used the free version but converted to the paid version. Now, we have five licenses, one for each of the staff members who are working remotely. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Proven to be one of the best in detecting malware that is otherwise undetected by other solutions. When a user gets hit by certain malware, many other tools do not even detect them as malware, while with Malwarebytes, you can rest assured that if it states that a computer is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection is better than Webroot's Business Endpoint Protection in quite a few ways from the admin console to how effective the software works. Malwarebytes has a better admin GUI console in every way. Malwarebytes has detected malware that Webroot has not. Incentivized Helpful? Philip Dixon Director Of Information Technology Chose Malwarebytes I found Sophos to be more resource intensive, scans take longer and affect the end user experience more. Building policies and customizations is not as intuitive with Sophos. Incentivized Helpful? Mauro Biefeni Head of Information Technology Chose Malwarebytes Malwarebytes beat the pricing we received from competing products like ESET and Bitdefender. Also, from looking at multiple reviews and ratings, Malwarebytes simply does a better job of protecting systems. It is easy to manage and maintain (sometimes information can be too … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Piskura FAA Repair Station Training Coordinator Chose Malwarebytes I have found Avast and TRENDmicro are experts in their own right but I have always found success at a low cost using Malwarebytes. Incentivized Helpful? Jennifer Stirling Executive Assistant to Lindsey Stirling Chose Malwarebytes I haven't used Norton, MacKeeper, nor any other anti-viral software for many years. I believe Malwarebytes is the most effective malware software available in its price range and have been extremely satisfied with it. Since using it I have had no issues nor incidents with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Malwarebytes seems to lead the industry in customer focus. Their support team is superior. The breadth of services they offer is a major factor along with their roadmap for the future. I believe the update process is one of the easiest I've experienced with major software … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Malwarebytes is much better at detecting and mitigating non-traditional or virus-like attack vectors than any of the frontline anti-virus programs that we evaluated. As such, we chose to use Malwarebytes in tandem with a frontline anti-virus solution, providing us with two … Incentivized Helpful? BB Barry Burd Professor Chose Malwarebytes It's difficult to make a fair comparison because I use Bitdefender on a Mac rather than a PC. Bitdefender finds many suspicious emails that it can't remove or quarantine, so I have to remove them manually. Malwarebytes doesn't do that. Incentivized Helpful? Marc Shaffer CEO Chose Malwarebytes To be blunt, MB leaves them in the dust from an operative and functional perspective. We use them because we get great support for all functions and find they do an excellent job at what they are designed to do. Competitive costs and no extraneous fees. Software that tries to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Have also used the following malware/spyware protection/removal tools: SuperAntiSpyware Spybot Search & Destroy Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Initially organization was startup so we preferred Malwarebytes. Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Dennis Sr. Systems Administrator Chose Malwarebytes Ultimately, we chose to go with Malwarebytes in addition to other solutions because we felt it filled a small but critical void in our overall protection on our network and client systems. I can't say I would use the product on its own as it was built for a very specific role … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes We've looked at other products but the ease of use, reviews and tests, and at this point, our own experience has led to us remaining with Malwarebytes instead of others. Cost is also a factor, Malwarebytes is reasonable comparatively when you look at what you get vs. what … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes Simply put, Malwarebytes has been around for a long time and has yet to fail me. The consistency in which it operates on our devices and updates on its own without breaking itself means that I do not have to second guess if we are going to be protected properly or not. It … Incentivized Helpful? dishant sharma Content writer and programmer Chose Malwarebytes It is also a very good option to consider as an antivirus system. But, it is not effective against the rootkits; that's why I selected Malwarebytes over it. Malware bytes has a more powerful and effective scanning mechanism than Norton. If I compare the free versions of the … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Henkel Owner Chose Malwarebytes It's been a while since I made my decision to purchase Malwarebytes over the other products listed. I believe at the time Malwarebytes was the best product on my short list. I tried both AVG and Avast before deciding on Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes was also recommended to me by … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Marton Customer Support Manager Chose Malwarebytes Better design, lower cost, more effective malware removal. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Malwarebytes For me, there are no other alternatives compared to the free version of Malwarebytes. I used McAfee Total Protection as an alternative, it's a full product with anti-malware, anti-virus, anti-spam. Incentivized Helpful?	NordLayer Verified User Anonymous Chose NordLayer In terms of functionality, features, security and device management, NordLayer beats all other competitors we tested by a longshot. The backend of NordLayer is user friendly and simple. The new Cloud Firewall feature is great and allows for an added layer on top of our device … Incentivized Helpful? YA Ye Thiha Aung ICT Chose NordLayer I selected NordLayer against other VPN services based on commonly evaluated criteria. There are security features, a server network, speed and performance, user interface and experience, and customer support. For example, NordLayer provides a vast network of servers in various … Incentivized Helpful? Sumeet Srivastava Vice President Chose NordLayer easy configuration and use case Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Malwarebytes	NordLayer
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (0 ratings)	8.7 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Malwarebytes	NordLayer
Likelihood to Recommend	Now, I gave it that rating because it's a handy tool for diagnosing issues. Quarantining them, and most of the time, it does fix the problem. Though with rootkits, it's been hit or miss, and sometimes perfectly valid software gets flagged erroneously. However, once you've run it, it tends to run continuously, consuming far too many resources and being a real pain to uninstall, sometimes even causing issues. Incentivized WM William C Mueller Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	Bypassed Geo-Restricted Access Incentivized YA Ye Thiha Aung ICT Read full review
Pros	The software is very good at working in the background without interfering with the end user in any way, there has never been a complaint of slowness on the machines or any excessive scan times because the users are unaware of it. Malwarebytes management console is a very nice interface that tracks all of the machines on the network and shows which one is online, offline, up to date, out of date etc. I can also push installation packages to new machines without end user interaction. Malwarebytes does extremely well what it is made to do, and that is to stop malware. Never once has any infection made it past malwarebytes to harm an end user machine. Malwarebytes is always up to date, definitions are downloaded on a daily basis, you can trust that your software is current and you are being protected from the latest threats out there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Easy to use Simple user interface desgin Support many VPN protocol Fast and reliable connection Incentivized YA Ye Thiha Aung ICT Read full review
Cons	As of 2021 Q1, I have had issues with upgrading Malwarebytes installs on endpoints from the admin console. On about 30%-50% of the endpoints, I have to manually uninstall them, reboot, and reinstall Malwarebytes. This is a relatively new feature over the last year that Malwarebytes has done that let's you control updating the endpoint agent. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The browser plugin needs some work, or some research about what browser/OS restrictions may limit its functionality. Ours does not work at all even after contacting support so we do not use it Toast/Windows notifications scheduled or deployed through admin center would be amazing. The ability to remind a user who has been disconnected for X hours would be a great feature Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	The last time we renewed Malwarebytes, we renewed for a 3 year renewal. That should describe the confidence we have in the product. Plus the cost savings impact year after year. Incentivized Joe Spradlin IT Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Usability-wise, it's pretty good, and it gets the job done. But once that's finished, the nags, the pop-ups, and the fact that it slows older systems down recklessly really cost it rating points. It becomes a clutter, and one of the first things we check when we receive reports that a PC is slow is whether it's running malware. Once we uninstall it, the PC is usually easily 40-50% faster. That's too much in the way of resources for something that wants to always run in the background. Incentivized WM William C Mueller Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	I honestly haven't needed support for Malwarebytes because I haven't had any problems with it, whatsoever. I am giving it a 9 rating because I haven't actually had an encounter or experience with customer service or support, so it's hard to rate the actual support team since I've never had the privilege of coming into contact with them. Incentivized Jennifer Stirling Executive Assistant to Lindsey Stirling Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Malwarebytes seems to lead the industry in customer focus. Their support team is superior. The breadth of services they offer is a major factor along with their roadmap for the future. I believe the update process is one of the easiest I've experienced with major software platforms. You may be able to receive a discount if you purchase through a reseller / IT vendor. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	In terms of functionality, features, security and device management, NordLayer beats all other competitors we tested by a longshot. The backend of NordLayer is user friendly and simple. The new Cloud Firewall feature is great and allows for an added layer on top of our device firewalls, many other VPNs have no such feature Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Less cleanup and work for IT, as users/PC don't get infected as often Less user interaction when premium is installed, it will run scans and block sites for you Less downtime as PCs stay up and running, users can stay productive Incentivized Kenji C System Administrator/IT Read full review	Satisfied security requirements to maintain company contracts. Difficult to put a number down but the loss of a contract could imply the loss of a large sum HIPAA Compliance, further contract maintenance Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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