Re: Windows Defender fails to update

[RobinPinoy <robin.saunders@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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