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Good morning 🌞

MB has not behaved as expected with daily threat scans. It could be my configurations are wrong. Attached are screen shots which supposedly show a threat scan every morning at 8:30. I confess, I didn't wait for 8:30 today, but did a manual scan shortly before. I was nervous about the timing of a restart which might have interfered with it.

I am unclear about the Smart Scan setting, which may solve this.

Thank you for clarifying.  🌺

 

 

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Thank you @Porthos for looking over my logs and spotting the outdated version. I updated before I ran my scan this morning and posted. Nothing out of the ordinary resulted. I updated at 2:PM EST and now that version is installed.

I noticed this is in another topic, and that update version happened last week, on the 19th. It's confusing that my system did not receive it, despite having automatic updates enabled. I know things are often without explanation, and this might be one of them.

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1 minute ago, NewTricks said:

It's confusing that my system did not receive it, despite having automatic updates enabled. I know things are often without explanation, and this might be one of them.

The company has program updates pushed through the normal updater (the one that checks for database updates) metered in such a way that it is throttled so not every user is offered the new build once it has been released, so it becomes a matter of probability and is somewhat random.  This means that you might be offered it early, or it might take a really long time before it is offered to you, it just all depends.  Basically a luck of the draw kind of deal.

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Good morning @Porthos

Continuing problems with automatic updates, so I've started manually checking daily.

Wednesday: 11/1        update 4.6.5.293 version 1.0.76796  component 1.0.2181

Sunday: 11/5                update 4.6.6.294 version 1.0.76932 component 1.0.2189

Monday:  11/6               update 4.6.6.294 version 1.0.7690 component 1.0.2189

Any ideas?

Thank you.

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3 hours ago, NewTricks said:

Any ideas?

Program and component updates are metered. This is normal

The company has program updates pushed through the normal updater (the one that checks for database updates) metered in such a way that it is throttled so not every user is offered the new build once it has been released, so it becomes a matter of probability and is somewhat random.  This means that you might be offered it early, or it might take a really long time before it is offered to you, it just all depends.  Basically a luck of the draw kind of deal.

 

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1 minute ago, NewTricks said:

Does this luck apply to when it scans?

No.

what is up with the following settings.

Malwarebytes Application Settings
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Start with Windows:             Disabled
Context Menu:                   Disabled

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I am not sure and was not aware.

Edit: whether this is relevant of not, it's up to you. AdvancedSetup has configured my system in a way to bypass certain Microsoft Security settings which normally should have worked with MB, but for some reason did not. So every time I do a Security scan with Windows, I get notifications which are then "dismissed." This has been routine for 4 months.

What is not routine is MB automatic scan stopped working every day maybe in the second week of October. Before that, totally reliable.

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Interesting. It did not hold that daily setting and has defaulted back to weekly. I have changed schedules to scan at IDLE time, and that's when it missed days on end. I wonder what might be the process for setting a particular time daily?  Certainly my system spends hours in idle time since I leave it on at least 12 hours a day.

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OK, I will check that too. Thanks.

It occurred to me that during the last month or so, I had disabled MB to do something, can't remember now, and maybe it is simply my "user error" in resetting the way it normally worked without problems. At least that's a better scenario than anything else.

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