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Old 05-02-2007   #6 (permalink)
Feliks Dzerzhinsky


 
 

Re: Windows Defender Definitons Out Of Date

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LoneStar wrote:
> "Mamamegs" <mamamegs@wilgeenmail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:mn.147d7d750966436a.72151@wilgeenmail.invalid...
>> Start up in safe mode, click 'Start'and in the searchbox type %windir%
>> and hit enter. Find the SoftwareDistribution folder, rightclick on it
>> and choose 'rename'. Name the folder SoftwareDistribution.old and
>> restart in normal mode.
>>
>> --
>> Mamamegs.
>>

>
> Note: your solution obviously works, and there is ANOTHER solution as posted
> by the previous person. HOWEVER, the bigger point is: WHY does this error
> code exist in the first place!! I have it too, on a new Vista system. I
> shouldn't have to perform "workarounds" to have things work properly.
> Actually, I'm not certain that the Defender error code won't show up again
> the NEXT time it needs updating -- so maybe these "workarounds" will be a
> weekly thing.
> OK....... thanks for listening! I feel better.
> EW
>
>

I, also got this error message today on Vista Ultimate x64, today. One
person here coming up with this error in a day, I can understand. Two,
and I am getting suspicious. Three, and I have to ask what MS changed
at their end to screw things up.

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Iron Feliks
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