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Windows Defender Updates
  1. 01 Oct 2008 #1


    anderson

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    Windows Defender Updates

    Hope someone here can help.
    In the last 5 days I have noticed my definitions for window defender KB915597 is at 1.43.801.0 and hasn`t changed at all... Generally i have seen defender updates definitions install without any problems , sometimes several times a week . Both my PC and my wife are Dell desktop machines on Vista Home Premium Edition IE 7 SP 1 for several months and the updates were being installed without any problems until the last one on Sept.26. Nothing in the configuration of Windows Update - Control Panel - Change setting has been adjusted in months.
    Has anyone else expierenced this and know what is causing the no updates for defender. One machine has the Symantec anti-virus expired and the other has the McAfee expired but that shouldn`t be the cause since they have been expired for several months and definitions were being installed in the background for months , unless there is some connection now.

    thanks for any ideas
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  2. 01 Oct 2008 #2
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    Nez

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    Re: Windows Defender Updates

    I sometimes find Windows Defender goes into "sleep mode".Try this link from Major Geeks.It is the latest Windows Defender update,according to the site:

    |MG| Windows Defender Antispyware Definition Updates 1.45.70

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  3. 01 Oct 2008 #3
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    Re: Windows Defender Updates

    Hi,

    You might try updating to the latest version of WUAgent

    How to obtain the latest version of the Windows Update Agent to help manage updates on a computer

    Hope it helps

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