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Defender Update Notification rosellie 08-18-2006
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?cm9zZWxsaWU=?= on August 18, 2006, 9:20 am
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Every day for the last week I have got an automatic notification that an
update is available for Defender. I have downloaded and installed 4 times &
each time have got the message "Update successful". When I run the programmes
'check for update' I get back "no updates available", when I go to MS Update
site it shows no updates needed - but the next day auto update message
re-appears in the notification area.
Details shown in programme Help/ About are :-
Version 1.1.1347.0
Engine 1.1.1560.0
Def. 1.14.1650.11
Although not a major problem it is getting very annoying.
Has anybody any answers to how to stop this happening?
--
rosellie

Posted by Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM on August 18, 2006, 3:36 pm
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> Every day for the last week I have got an automatic notification that an
> update is available for Defender. I have downloaded and installed 4 times
> &
> each time have got the message "Update successful". When I run the
> programmes
> 'check for update' I get back "no updates available", when I go to MS
> Update
> site it shows no updates needed - but the next day auto update message
> re-appears in the notification area.
> Details shown in programme Help/ About are :-
> Version 1.1.1347.0
> Engine 1.1.1560.0
> Def. 1.14.1650.11
> Although not a major problem it is getting very annoying.
> Has anybody any answers to how to stop this happening?
> --
> rosellie

At this time, support for the beta version of Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware
is being provided through the following Microsoft newsgroups:

- microsoft.private.security.spyware.announcements
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.appcompat
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.general
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.install
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.networking
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.signatures
- microsoft.private.security.spyware.onlinecommunity

These newsgroups can be accessed via NNTP or HTTP.

To access these newsgroups using HTTP, please go to the following location:

http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?ICP=spyware&sLCID=us

To access these newsgroups using NNTP, please use the following information
for your NNTP client (such as Microsoft Outlook Express):

- NNTP Server: privatenews.microsoft.com
- Account name: privatenews\spyware
- Password: spyware

NOTE: No password will be required via the HTTP link

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Please reply in newsgroup. Do NOT send email.



Posted by Rob R. Ainscough on August 18, 2006, 3:48 pm
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Uninstall Defender, it is useless anyway. I had the same problem -- ended
up going with lava-soft's Ad-ware SE and SpyBot Search & Destroy since both
are free and both found and fixed problems Defender didn't.

Don't know what is going on with Microsoft these days, everyday I find
myself just shaking my head at the "new" products/tools that just either
don't work/install or have some very obvious problems/bugs. I suspect
they're outsourcing their QA to "offshore" companies and the results of
cheap QA are showing up in just about all Microsoft's products.


> Every day for the last week I have got an automatic notification that an
> update is available for Defender. I have downloaded and installed 4 times
> &
> each time have got the message "Update successful". When I run the
> programmes
> 'check for update' I get back "no updates available", when I go to MS
> Update
> site it shows no updates needed - but the next day auto update message
> re-appears in the notification area.
> Details shown in programme Help/ About are :-
> Version 1.1.1347.0
> Engine 1.1.1560.0
> Def. 1.14.1650.11
> Although not a major problem it is getting very annoying.
> Has anybody any answers to how to stop this happening?
> --
> rosellie



Posted by PA Bear on August 18, 2006, 11:15 pm
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As part of the beta testing, daily Defender updates have been "pushed"
from 1 Aug-06 through 14 Aug-06, Jenny. This was announced in the beta
newsgroups at the end of Jul-06.

Current Definition set is 1.14.1652.4 (16 Aug-06).

Microsoft has established separate newsgroups for Windows Defender Beta2
support and comments. This is not one of them.

See
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/newsgroups/default.mspx
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

rosellie wrote:
> Every day for the last week I have got an automatic notification that an
> update is available for Defender. I have downloaded and installed 4 times
> & each time have got the message "Update successful". When I run the
> programmes 'check for update' I get back "no updates available", when I
> go to MS Update site it shows no updates needed - but the next day auto
> update message re-appears in the notification area.
> Details shown in programme Help/ About are :-
> Version 1.1.1347.0
> Engine 1.1.1560.0
> Def. 1.14.1650.11
> Although not a major problem it is getting very annoying.
> Has anybody any answers to how to stop this happening?


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