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It also appears Malwarebytes has got better in preventing script attacks as well hopefully they continue to improve in that field. 

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3 minutes ago, JaCo_BRZ said:

I suppose today counts as the early part of 2024.  It is what the download link gives now but the site doesn't really have anything telling you how do anything with it, so not the best start.

It's not fully released yet. We'll be sure to share more once it is. :)

Please see my previous update here:

 

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1 minute ago, msherwood said:

It's not fully released yet. We'll be sure to share more once it is. :)

Please see my previous update here:

 

It is utterly incompetent and unprofessional to randomly give people, much less completely new users, who go to your website to download the OFFICIAL version of Malwarebytes and then instead give them an UNOFFICIAL version.  Much less an UNOFFICIAL version which has no actual support for them.  They are not going to go to go into your forums and dig around a Beta forum for the information.

If you are giving new users the link to the new version then the new version is out now, no matter what you claim otherwise.

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7 minutes ago, JaCo_BRZ said:

It is utterly incompetent and unprofessional to randomly give people, much less completely new users, who go to your website to download the OFFICIAL version of Malwarebytes and then instead give them an UNOFFICIAL version. 

Are you saying the link on the main Malwarebytes website is giving users Version 5? https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download

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1 minute ago, JaCo_BRZ said:

It is utterly incompetent and unprofessional to randomly give people, much less completely new users, who go to your website to download the OFFICIAL version of Malwarebytes and then instead give them an UNOFFICIAL version.  Much less an UNOFFICIAL version which has no actual support for them.  They are not going to go to go into your forums and dig around a Beta forum for the information.

If you are giving new users the link to the new version then the new version is out now, no matter what you claim otherwise.

It's an official version and we support it just like any other app we make. :)

We're carefully and purposely rolling it out like this to ensure it's working for our millions of users.

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1 minute ago, Porthos said:

Are you saying the link on the mail Malwarebytes is giving users Version 5? https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download

Yes, as is the Free Download Link on the main page.  ALL links I have done today on multiple systems have given the new v5.  Yet they are claiming that it is not officially released.  No new users of any product should be given an unofficial version of the software without their full knowledge when going to the official download site.

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1 minute ago, msherwood said:

It's an official version and we support it just like any other app we make. :)

We're carefully and purposely rolling it out like this to ensure it's working for our millions of users.

Make up your mind.  Either v5 is officially released or it is not.  You do not get to have a product not be officially released but be an official release.

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17 hours ago, JaCo_BRZ said:

Make up your mind.  Either v5 is officially released or it is not.  You do not get to have a product not be officially released but be an official release.

It's exactly what he said, "It's an official version and we support it just like any other app we make."

For the past 10 years, whenever we release a new version of our software, we carefully roll it out.  When we went from Malwarebytes 3 to 4, it was available to new users first, and existing customers were upgraded over a slow process that took several months (or longer depending on various factors).  

With Malwarebytes 5, we are and will continue to roll it out in a very controlled fashion.  That means not everyone will get it right away.  We purposely limit based on many factors.

I think you are getting hung up on "officially released".  That might not mean what you think it means.

What it means to us is that anything we send to a customer, that is an "official release", and are fully supported by Malwarebytes.  Beta and preview releases have limited support available, but they are official.

"Officially released" does not mean that everyone will get it all at once.

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2 hours ago, ChuckOp said:

It's exactly what he said, "It's an official version and we support it just like any other app we make."

For the past 10 years, whenever we release a new version of our software, we carefully roll it out.  When we went from Malwarebytes 3 to 4, it was available to new users first, and existing customers were upgraded over a slow process that took several months (or longer depending on various factors).  

With Malwarebytes 5, we are and will continue to roll it out in a very controlled fashion.  That means not everyone will get it right away.  We purposely limit based on many factors.

I think you are getting hung up on "officially released".  That might not mean what you think it means.

What it means to us is that anything we send to a customer, that is an "official release", and are fully supported by Malwarebytes.  Beta and preview releases have limited support available, but they are official.

"Officially released" does not mean that everyone will get it all at once.

No, it is exactly the opposite of what he originally said.  He originally said that it was being released later and not currently.  Then he said the exact opposite.  So I said he needs to make up his mind.  As you will need to do later in this reply.

It is the opposite of careful to roll out a new version of any software to people who do not know that they are getting a new version where literally all support for it is limited to the Beta forums.  The people coming to your website to download Malwarebytes are not coming here to download a beta version of the software.  They are coming to download the version that is 

"Rolling it out" to new users who have no knowledge of the product and no knowledge that they are being given a product where the only support for it requires them to go into the beta forums rather than the support pages of your own site is the exact opposite of rolling it out in a very controlled fashion.  You literally are sending it out to people who have no way to know that anything is wrong because they have no reference point for the software working correctly.

You need to be more hung up on what the legal definitions for officially released are.  It means exactly what I think it means, but not what you think it does.  Officially released does mean everyone can get it and that everyone knows that they are getting it.  What you are doing is a bait and switch.  Your site is advertising v4 as being what people are downloading as it shows that they will get the version of the software that has the support on the main page, not the version that is only supported by digging through the beta forums where no new users should ever have to go without having chosen themselves to have downloaded the beta version.

Now you have contradicted yourself in the same paragraph.  A release cannot both be fully supported and have limited support.  So make up your mind.  Because I can prove that v5 is not in any way fully supported by Malwarebytes just by going to the support section of your own webpage.  No, the only version that is actually fully supported by Malwarebytes is v4.  The only place to find anything about v5 on the website is to go to the Beta Forums.  That is not what anyone who downloads Malwarebytes from your website will or should need to go to get help with issues with the software.

You are sending out a Beta version of v5 to a bunch of people who have never used your product because they won't complain about changes that have been made to make the software worse.  So then when you release it to the people who do know what the product should work and has behaved previously complain about it you can provide misleading statements like well we rolled it out over several months and did not have any issues.

At least be willing to admit what you are doing.

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2 minutes ago, delphin136 said:

And can the Updater of MBAM 5 find the MBAM 6 when it is released and install it over MBAM 5 when it comes

Version 6 is most likely YEARS away.

4 minutes ago, delphin136 said:

Is MBAM 5 now Final released or not

Yes, it is a slow rollout as explained here

 

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@Trusted Advisors

Thank you very much for your infos. I mean that the internal Updater of MBAM 5 will find version 6 and install that

Any infos to find and download the Full Offline Installer of MBAM 5

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