Great interview.
Been using the paid for version for a while now, and the free version for ages before that.
Also, when one of the myriad of clueless people who shouldn't be allowed to use computers come to me because they clicked a link in some email, or installed some "super-duper program" that some "friend" told them about or whatever, and want me to clean it up, it's always Anti-Malware first. Even with one of those fake antivirus apps, where I've had to use the 8:3 format in a command prompt to start it (Remember this: "C
ROGRA~1"...lol).
Always first, always successful. Very difficult to convince them to fork out for it to get real-time protection, or get into a routine of running scans in the free version.
One negative comment about the article though: Microsoft do actually do a hell of a lot to combat malware. Windows Defender and Security Essentials in Windows (as stated in the article), going after and bringing down botnets, all the research they do...
It is not their fault that all these crappy apps that open floodgates for malware happen to be installed in Windows.
Absolutely adore Mbam, though!