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Thanks for the reply! I do understand that from a logical perspective, there is a point of no benefit between a large incremental update vs just replacing the entire rules.ref file. But to clarify what I was trying to say, if I go more than a day or so, I am usually stuck with having to download a complete file. Surely 2 or 3 days worth of incremental changes cannot be remotely close to over 6 MB of a complete rules.ref file. This is the crux of my request... being able to download a larger amount/percentage of incremental updates before the complete file download overrides the incremetal process. Thanks for listening!

I run 2 Win 7 laptops (1 is Starter and 1 is Home Premium.) Both healthy, up to date/fully patched. I have 2 personal licenses of MBAM. And, I live with very, very slow dial up internet. My issues with the incremental updates is that unless I do them at least once daily, they fail and MBAM decides it needs to load the entire database. Which can take an hour or more! Beyond that, even if I do update once a day, they sometimes fail anyway and I am stuck with a huge download. When this happens, I usually have to stop the download and I end up with a corrupt rules.ref file. My fix is often to do without MBAM for a few days, haul my laptops to where ever I can get WiFi, delete the old rules.ref file and then download the latest rules. Not handy or practical at all! I know 1.60 is the first version with incrementals and I understand the process will likely be tweaked over time. But no other software I use that offers incrementals does this. If they can update incrementally, they always do. As you might imagine, this is something I would like to see improved. 1 minute or 2 minutes vs 1 hour (or more) makes a huge difference! Ideas that have come to mind... perhaps a means to permanently force incrementals and not allow the program to go into full download mode. Or if that is not practical, force incremental updates unless the program hasn't been updated for say 15 days (or maybe as long as 30??) Any help that can be applied to this problem would be greatly, greatly appreciated! You have a good product! Hopefully you can make it better for me and users like me!