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Activate Premium features on Malwarebytes for Windows

Your Malwarebytes subscription allows you to activate Premium features such as Real-Time Protection and Scheduled Scans. If you purchased a subscription for multiple devices, find instructions on how to install and activate on different devices here: Install & activate Malwarebytes personal products.

There are two ways to activate your subscription.

Activate using My Account

This method requires you to have an active Malwarebytes account login. If you haven't set up your My Account login, see Create and manage your Malwarebytes Account.

  1. Open the Malwarebytes application.
  2. In the top right corner of the Dashboard, click Activate license.
  3. In the Email field, enter the email address used to sign in to My Account.
  4. In the Password field, enter the password used to sign in to My Account.
  5. Click Sign in. When your subscription activates, click Done.
    Once activated, Premium displays in the top-left corner of the program Dashboard.

Watch this video to learn how to activate your subscription using My Account:

Activate using a license key

This method requires you to have your license key, see Find my Malwarebytes license key.
 

If your license key has this format XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Malwarebytes application.
  2. In the top right corner of the Dashboard, click Activate license.
  3. Click Enter license key.
  4. Under License key, enter your key.
    Note: The Activate license button becomes clickable when a valid license key is entered into the corresponding field.
  5. Click Activate.

If your license key has this format XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX and has a license ID with the format XXXXX or XXXXX-XXXXX, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Malwarebytes application.
  2. In the top right corner of the Dashboard, click Activate license.
  3. Click Enter license key.
  4. Below the License Key entry, select My license came with a License ID.
  5. Enter your License ID and License Key.
    Note: The Activate license button becomes clickable when valid license key and ID are entered into the corresponding fields.
  6. Click Activate.

To verify the activation was successful, Premium displays in the top-left corner of the application.

Watch this video to learn how to activate your subscription using a license key:

 

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