Real Time Update: what does this really mean

[DimwitDuck]

What does this really mean? How does it trigger an update?

With a laptop that connects to the internet only for short time does it detect internet connection straight away and update?

On the other hand:

A desktop that is always connected does it immediately sense the update and get it quicker than it would if set on hourly updates?

[Haleo]

Hello DimwitDuck and welcome to the Malwarebytes forums.

Realtime updates constantly checks with the update server, and will download an update when it becomes available. The option "Repeating every X minutes" is there so that you can set how frequently you want to check the server for an update. The default is 5 min. This is much faster then hourly updates, as hourly updates only check every the server every hour to see if an update is available.

With your laptop, I would go with Realtime updates, since it will check for the update once you are connected to the internet. Once connected, Malwarebytes will begin updating within X amount of minutes, with X being the Repeating option that we talked about earlier.