How to Submit Malicious File or Website to Malwarebytes?

How To Submit Malicious File or Website To Malwarebytes?

If you have doubt in your mind that a file or website is malicious, submit a sample of the file or website to the Malwarebytes Forums Research Center. Submitting a sample would help us to enhance the way our Malwarebytes software detects, eliminates, and blocks malware.

To submit a sample, sign up for a Malwarebytes Forum a/c, after then create a topic in the Research Center.

Sign up for the Forums

1. With your browser, go to the Malwarebytes Forums (https://forums.malwarebytes.com)

2. Now, click Sign Up
3. To create your a/c, fill the required columns
a) Put your display name, email address, password, and other security-related questions
b) Now, click on the box next to 'I'm not a robot'
c) Give your consent to Terms of Use and Privacy Policy followed by clicking on 'Create my Account'

A verification email having subject 'You must validate your account to continue' will be sent to your email address.

Now, open the verification email, and click on Verify my Email address Create a topic in the Research Center

1. First of all, Log in to the Malwarebytes Forums (https://forums.malwarebytes.com)

2. From the Malwarebytes Forums, move to the Research Center
3. In the Research Center, select the subforum that best explains the file/website you wish to submit
To check instructions for each subforum, click the pinned topic headed as Purpose of this forum
4. After then, tap on Start new topic
5. Now, create and submit your new topic

- To submit a file:

1. Zip the file
2. Next, add the zipped file as an attachment
- To submit a website:
1. Save the address of the website in a text file
2. Zip the file
3. Next, add the zipped file as an attachment
- To learn how to zip a file, kindly refer to Microsoft's article 'Zip and unzip files'
- Add your experience when you faced the issue.

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