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ThrashZone said:

Ha your correct it's 5 minutes
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I'm sorry, but neither of the settings in that screen shot is the default.

The default setting for update checks is NOT "realtime", it is "hourly".
(Such "hourly" scheduled update checks are randomized +/- 15 minutes, to balance server load. That is why this is the default setting.)

Selecting "Realtime" is an end-user change to the configuration and settings.
And, yes, there is a drop-down menu of frequency options for realtime updates, but those are not default, either.
That is another end-user configuration change.

Here are links to the User Guide for version 2.1:
HTML
PDF

Thank you,

Not for mine it's the default after install and it's the default for a new scheduled task.

ThrashZone said:

Thanks I believe the crazy default I was referring to is checking for updates every 10 minutes,

But the default your referring to just increases insures the chances of getting a bad update

The frequent updates we are referring to are database updates, not program updates. I've never heard of a bad database update.

Okay :/
This is a non specific thread covering mbam 2.0 in general which you've said many times to be flawed :)
But it's all good,

I was simply pointing the default update task after activation and it's still the default task for a new task for updating "If" not manually changed which has been questioned by Moxie...

Can anyone else verify ? Task New/ Update/ RealTime is already pre-selected = 5 minutes as a default.

Seffrid said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

ThrashZone said:

Thanks I believe the crazy default I was referring to is checking for updates every 10 minutes,

But the default your referring to just increases insures the chances of getting a bad update

The frequent updates we are referring to are database updates, not program updates. I've never heard of a bad database update.

It was a database update in April 2013 that disabled thousands of computers worldwide.

https://forums.malwarebytes.org/inde...-update-issue/

That is why there is some concern about the auto-quarantine feature (especially when it kicks in after 40 seconds even if you have it disabled), as it was the auto-quarantine of multiple operating system files following a routine database update that brought down so many computers in the short time before MBAM realised there was a problem and pulled the update.

I stand...er...sit corrected. Apparently, I lucked out and didn't get affected by that.

Clean is useless I've done it seems a hundred times with the same negative results or the same bugs.
1.75... was flawless.
2.0... not at all.

ThrashZone said:

Clean is useless I've done it seems a hundred times with the same negative results or the same bugs.
1.75... was flawless.
2.0... not at all.

True. That's why I waited quite a while before updating to 2.x. So far, I haven't had any problems other than getting familiar with the new UI. I will also wait a while before updating to the newest version to recently come out.