Personal computing discussed
churin wrote:Question and answer:
Where can I download the definitions?
TheEmrys wrote:I"d definately download malwarebytes from http://www.malwarebytes.org and install it in Safe mode w/ networking.
TheEmrys wrote:Malwarebytes doesn't replace MSE (or any other AV, for that matter). I use MSE, but when there are some things that are too tough, you gotta go to the best. And that's malwarebytes. Don't buy it, just download it, use it, uninstall it.
churin wrote:TheEmrys wrote:Malwarebytes doesn't replace MSE (or any other AV, for that matter). I use MSE, but when there are some things that are too tough, you gotta go to the best. And that's malwarebytes. Don't buy it, just download it, use it, uninstall it.
Do you mean that there is a malware in my machine that is preventing the MSE from updating the definitions?
TheEmrys wrote:It sounds like an MSE issue. I'd follow the steps on this page. You'll probably need to do step 5, which is a bit daunting, but very doable and won't break anything (too bad).
churin wrote:I have reviewed the article. It appears to be about the MSE failing to do the automatic scheduled updates. My present problem is the manual, forced immediate updates not working. I do not know whether the automatic update works or not. I checked list of the running services and "wuauserv" and "BITS" are in it, as referred to in 1 of the article.
MadManOriginal wrote:When you go to the update tab in MSE, what definition version do you currently have?
I just manually updated and mine shows 1.133.453.0. Maybe it's just failing to show as updated when in reality you do have the latest definition version?