

If you do a search for TotalAV on the web you'll also find countless so-called 'AV review' sites pushing it that no one has ever heard of (they're actually affiliates/resellers attempting to convince people to purchase the product through their websites so that they receive their cut of the profits from the transactions which is something no reputable security software vendor should allow in my opinion, and most don't, including Malwarebytes if any affiliate is caught behaving in this way they either have to stop or they are cut from the affiliate program so that they are no longer authorized to sell Malwarebytes). You may review the following references for more info as I don't expect anyone to take my word for it: TotalAV on the other hand is widely known to be PUP, not just by Malwarebytes, and is often marketed by overly aggressive and deceitful sites/affiliates and is often re-branded/re-skinned to attempt to saturate the market as well as to attempt to bypass detection by security products that do classify it as PUP or malware.

Since Malwarebytes isn't an AV (nor have they ever claimed that it was), it's not surprising at all that it did poorly in a test designed to test AV engines and you can find more details on why Malwarebytes was tested and why it missed what it did in this Malwarebytes blog article where it was announced. Malwarebytes scored the lowest score in AV Test December 2018, so based on your line of thinking is a PUP?

Endpoint Detection & Response for Servers
