Windows Defender

something daft already!! · 8 Mar 2007 at 13:16

Anyone else got an issue with Vista and defender at the mo? Since last night, I have been unable to update it. error code 0x80240029. Some stuff on Google thinks it may have something to do with an issue of licensing, but mine is fully legit.

Priapus · 8 Mar 2007 at 15:11

Mine is working just fine..so not too sure. Try an update from the MS site?

something daft already!! · 8 Mar 2007 at 17:39

Update says no new updates, if I try to update defender I get the error code.

ShakenNstirred · 8 Mar 2007 at 20:31

i just tried it and also got the same error

blighter · 8 Mar 2007 at 21:25

no problems here when i goto help - update in Defender

something daft already!! · 8 Mar 2007 at 23:32

Possibly the servers are down, maybe ok in a day or so.

Craig321 · 8 Mar 2007 at 23:51

Make sure the Windows Defender service is running.

something daft already!! · 9 Mar 2007 at 09:56

It sure is. Curious. The follwoing was suggested to me but didnt work, may work for others:

SFC /SCANNOW

from an elevated cmd prompt. In the Start search box type cmd. Right click on cmd.exe in the list above and pick Run as administrator.

Didnt work for me, but good luck to you if you have this issue.

tripitaka · 9 Mar 2007 at 11:31

Was anybody else finding defender made their computer boot incredibly slowly?

I killed the service and stopped it from running at startup, and now windows boots massively faster...

something daft already!! · 12 Mar 2007 at 02:09

Heres the solution which worked for me:

Go to Windows update. Click on change settings (on the left). Check
"never check for updates." Remove any other checks (Recommended update and
any other). Then go back to Defender and run the Updates again. Version
downloaded should read 1.15.2336.7. It will also download a couple? of
Windows updates. After, don't forget to go back to Win updates and change
back to auto setting.

xms · 12 Mar 2007 at 06:38

Having had the same problem I've found this on microsoft's site : http://tinyurl.com/yp9mq5 which is basically the same as howiepoohs suggests.
For me the problem seems to be having enabled "microsoft update" as opposite to just "windows update", even after the above workaround if I reenable "microsoft update" I get same error in defender and no updates are found for vista os while if a leave "windows update" updates are found for vista.

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