Ahhh, I believe you hit the nail on the head, Pondus. That has to be it. What I downloaded just barely yesterday and installed was MBAM 2.00.0.1000. So, yeah, it makes sense that if MBAM 2.00.1.1004 or whatever Program Update barely came out today … my MBAM database update attempt this morning no doubt first went into downloading the Program Update before the database update.

That brings up the question then …
Isn’t there a setting I can set so that any Program Updates do NOT automatically download? I didn’t see that anywhere. If I recall correctly, we had that setting in the old MBAM. I certainly don’t want Program Updates to start downloading automatically upon bringing up MBAM cuz that’s too much for my Dial Up. New versions of MBAM I would have to wait until I’m using my sister’s High Speed Internet like I was yesterday.