Can't Turn Off / Disable Malware Bytes Auto Updates

Whenever I slide the two buttons to the "Off" position like this:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/865/41156811804_9930d55e5f_o.png

If I then exit the program and re-open it, the two buttons go back to "On" by themselves:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/905/41156811764_b9a533e7ff_o.png

No matter what I do, I can't get them to stay on the "Off" position. They keep reverting back to "On". This is very annoying. How can we actually turn these off?

 

This thread seems to infer that you can only schedule the frequency of updates....but I may be wrong

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/130105-how-to-disable-auto-update/

 

You have the Premium trial. You won't be able to turn them off until the trial expires and you are using the free version.

If you don't want to wait:
1. Uninstall the current version
2. Download the free version
https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/
3. Opt out of the free trial for the Premium version

 

I actually have the free version, but it didn't seem to have any option to decline the trial during the install. However, there is an option in the About tab to deactivate the trial. Now the title bar says Malwarebytes Free 3.4.5. So I went ahead and deactivated it. But it's still having the same problem. The slider buttons won't stay on "Off".

(And that other thread is about 5 years old.)

 

I don't like automatic updates. Once it thinks it needs an update, you get these annoying pop-up prompts everytime you start Windows until you finally give up and just do the dang update.

 

You can't turn off "Critical Notifications".

https://support.malwarebytes.com/docs/DOC-1207

However, look in Windows' Task Scheduler.
If there's a Malwarebytes task to check for updates every time you start Windows, disable it.

 

Did you look at the heading?

this is from your first post and I explained how you have the Premium version for 14 days.