Glad that it finally got its act together, Shax. Sometimes there's no apparent reason for why an app or program suddenly hiccups. I have found...over the years...that holidays are busy internet times often overloading the airways...that slow down certain processes...testing our patience. Perhaps that's what caused your update problem. If it repeats...run Chameleon. And/or take a look at your Event log to see if you can get a clue there as to what's causing the problem.

When you install Malwarebytes it has 2 checkboxes... one of which says something about start the free trial... so you need to uncheck that at install to get the free version. I would hope the free trial version automatically changes to the free version when its two weeks is up.

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