Re: Windows Defender fails to update

On 6/3/06, RobinPinoy <robin.saunders@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

I have tried a number of times to install and reinstall Windows Defender
but
I always get the following message 'Window defender was unablew to
complete
the update: 0x8024002b', when checking for updates.

I have followed MS suggestions from
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=915105 but still no success.

Hope someone on this list might be able to help me.

Not sure how much help this will be, other than to save you from pulling out
your hair.

For a lot of people, myself included, Microsoft "broke" Windows Defender
with the symptoms you described.  Too bad, because it seems to be a pretty
good product otherwise.  I never had problems with the version M$ had before
they renamed it to Defender, but I think I got Defender to update a few
times before it "broke".  I gave up after a week of checking for a fix; that
was several weeks ago, so I am somewhat surprised to hear that they still
haven't fixed it.

FWIW, there are a lot of other products that do what Defender was supposed
to do, some good ones even do it for free.  I have had good experience with
"Spybot - Search & Destroy" and "Ad-Aware".

HTH,
Dan