Re: Windows Defender fails to update

Thanks Dan for the suggestions. Hopefully, M$ might get around to fixing
theirs/w. I agree there was seemed to be no problems with the version before
Defender.

Many thanks
Robin

On 6/6/06, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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
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