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Hi, this might an unusual request.

I have an older on-disk version of Malwarebytes, purchased in 2014 through Microcenter when I built my original PC. I had it on Windows 7 and it downloaded updates and kept up to date fine as recently as three months ago. Then I finally rebuilt my PC and installed Windows 10, and when I went to reinstall Malwarebytes it now gives me the error "PROGRAM_ERROR_UPDATING (0, 0, Host not found)" whenever I try to update the program from the 2012 version loaded on the disk. The program is fully authenticated with a product ID and product key, and it works just fine. The updating is the only real issue.

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Greetings,

Unfortunately, such older versions are no longer supported, however your lifetime license is still valid so you should be able to upgrade to the latest version of Malwarebytes Premium.  Please refer to this support article as well as this reference for further details on Malwarebytes' life cycle policy and supported legacy products.

Also keep in mind that even if you could update your older version, the vast majority of threat signatures included in the databases could not be used by the much older engine as each build of Malwarebytes is written to ignore threat signatures that it does not understand in order to avoid critical issues and false positives (since older versions would not know how to interpret new database syntax and signature types which have been created based on newer versions of the engine/software to target newer threats and threat types).  This means that even using the same database versions, an older version of Malwarebytes will be incapable of detecting many of the threats that the current version would detect using the same threat signatures/database updates.

I would highly recommend first signing up for an account at My.Malwarebytes.com as described in this support article, then, if your license doesn't show up there, adding your license key manually as described in this support article, then uninstalling the older build you have now and restarting your system, then installing the latest version from here and activating it with your ID and Key.

From there, if you wish to continue to use both Windows Defender and Malwarebytes, deactivate the option for Malwarebytes to register in the Windows Security Center by opening Malwarebytes and navigating to settings by clicking the small gear icon in the upper right, then selecting the Security tab and toggling the option under the Windows Security Center section to the off position and restarting your system.  That will allow you to keep both Malwarebytes and Defender active in real-time.

You will also find the user guide for Malwarebytes 4 here which will provide information on most of the features and options in the latest version.

I hope this helps, and if there is anything else we might assist you with please let us know.

Thanks

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You're welcome, I'm glad that it's working properly.

I do have one more recommendation; if you haven't installed it already, I'd highly recommend installing Malwarebytes Browser Guard.  It's free, works well with Malwarebytes Premium, and is available for most Chromium based browsers, including Google Chrome and the latest version of Microsoft Edge, as well as Mozilla Firefox.  It adds blocking for many ads and trackers to protect your privacy and speed up browsing, as well as including behavior based blocking for malicious tech support scams in addition to the malicious sites blocked by the Web Protection in Malwarebytes Premium.

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