Thanks. I had already seen that (I lurk around over there frequently).
The only thing I noted in that thread that is somewhat related to this discussion here was where Porthos said,
That explains how you were upgraded with the slow rollout. I have not seen personally, any of the systems with the old style keys upgraded with the check for updates button.
I have the old style keys but not really the point (or main point anyway) of my comments in this thread here. He is (I think) talking about the user with the old style lifetime license keys "manually" checking for updates and not being offered v5. That does apply to me and my systems here (though I don't understand how that explains anything in relation to the slow rollout). ???
However, my point is, I like to keep my main systems configured with default settings because that is how most of my clients (and friends and family) who call on me for technical help configure their machines. This allows me to see (more or less - hopefully) how their systems behave when something happens and they call me up asking for help (at least that's the idea behind my methods).
So, I have the Malwarebytes Premium setting "
Automatically download and install updates" set to the default setting; "On" or "Enabled".
Yet, I have yet to be offered v5 a full 2 months after the "official release" to the general public the
finalized (GA or general availability) version of v5. This is also 2 full months since the rollout began. Yet even when I manually tell it to check for updates, not only am I not offered v5, I am told "
Malwarebytes is up to date".
That, to me, seems like a very long, perhaps even an excessive amount of time.
I'm a hardware guy but I worked 10 years for a major defense contractor/software development company. I was 1 of 10 techs supporting 400 developers. One of my "other hats" was as an alpha and beta tester. I have also done beta testing for Microsoft and a couple other smaller companies. And I still beta test for Firetrust. If Malwarebytes v5 was still in beta, these delays would make sense. But again, v5 was
officially released to the public 2 months ago.
Now I am not running around the Internet lambasting Malwarebytes about this. This thread here at Sysnative is the only place I have mentioned this. And as long as v4 continues to receive regular updates and most importantly, continues to do its job, I have no intention of discussing this issue elsewhere. I am just saying to me, these delays are getting "
curiouser and curiouser".
I refer you back to my
post #8 above. Here it is another month later and nothing has changed, except, perhaps an increased sense of curiosity about these delays.
