rose1054 Posted December 31, 2011 ID:511798 Share Posted December 31, 2011 The amount of CPU it takes to update MBAM is still very high. Yes I am aware this is depenedent on the type of processor running but on my laptop CPU is still 100% to process the update. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foggy Croaker Posted January 10, 2012 ID:515751 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Curious if you or anyone else is having a problem with updates. My home system is Windows XP. I kept checking the update progress about once an hour and it didnt seem to be moving. I rebooted, reconnected and watched the byte transfer as Malwarebytes downloaded the update. Every update lately is on the order of 10 MB. I am not seeing any incremental update. In any case, I watched the byte transfer and the progress report. Progress actually reached 100%. I was shocked to see the update download start all over again at the byte 0. I cannot explain that. On second "attempt", progress reached 90% when, with no warning, the update download began again at byte 0.Are the download servers overloaded? There was nothing running on my system. Still I observed that the download often halted for minutes at a time before continuing.In my experience, the Malwarebytes update is ALWAYS on the order of 10 MB and over the course of time, seems to only increase in size. This suggests that every update is a complete replacement of the database. If that is the case and there is no incremental update, then this is a terrible design for the update download.If there is some connection problem which interferes with the download, then Malwarebytes should be saving the download and resume after error recovery. Restarting at byte 0 should not occur. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted January 10, 2012 ID:515758 Share Posted January 10, 2012 If the file size is 10MB, then it isn't the database. The current database size is between 5-7MB, not 10MB. 10MB is the size of the new version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, 1.60, which was recently released and it sounds as though that's what it is downloading but it isn't prompting you to install it for some reason.Incremental updates are only available in the PRO version of 1.60, and the download size for databases will be quite small (much less than 1MB).I would suggest that you download and install the latest version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware from here as that should resolve the issue that you're seeing. Make certain you're logged in as an administrator when you do so, otherwise it will not be able to install properly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foggy Croaker Posted January 10, 2012 ID:515801 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Thanks, I'll try downloading and replacing my current install. Its been pretty frustrating watching it download 10 MB over and over and over. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rose1054 Posted January 13, 2012 Author ID:516637 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Ok so this question is for the Malwarebytes team. Is CPU usage an issue when applying incremental updates on certain processors? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted January 13, 2012 ID:516669 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Ok so this question is for the Malwarebytes team. Is CPU usage an issue when applying incremental updates on certain processors?Not on certain processors, no, but CPU spikes are normal because it must compare the differences between your currently installed database and the incremental database updates that are downloaded and then merge the changes into your existing database file to update it. All of that database parsing/comparing and combining does require some CPU to process. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rose1054 Posted January 14, 2012 Author ID:516819 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Thanks for replying. Perhaps its time for a new laptop with a faster processor. The spike is almost non-existent on a faster desktop I have. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted January 14, 2012 ID:516863 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Yes, I have an older desktop myself and the CPU spiking is much more noticeable than on my much newer laptop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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