Your Malwarebytes subscription allows you to activate paid 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
To use this method, you need to have an active Malwarebytes account. If you haven't set up your My Account login, see Create and manage your Malwarebytes Account.
- Open Malwarebytes for Mac.
- At the top-right of the Dashboard, click Activate License.
- In the Email field, enter the email address used to sign in to My Account.
- In the Password field, enter the password used to sign in to My Account.
- Click Sign in. When your subscription activates, click Done.
Watch this video to learn how to activate your subscription using My Account:
Activate using a license key
- Open Malwarebytes for Mac.
- At the top-right of the Dashboard, click Activate License.
- Click Enter license key.
- Enter your license key into the License key field, then click Activate license.
Note: The Activate license button becomes clickable when a valid license key is entered into the corresponding field. - Malwarebytes may ask you to allow or enable Real-Time Protection features. Click the Turn Protection On button that appears on the Dashboard.
When the Premium features are activated, Premium displays in the top-left corner of the program Dashboard.
Watch this video to learn how to activate your subscription using a license key:
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