How I fixed my Windows Defender Updates & WinXP Automatic Updates

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[m0ng0d]

So I'm bouncing along merrily when Windows defender pops up a note that it's 2 weeks out of date and puts a tray icon in the systray with "??"... so i try force a manual update... no go.

Then I realize... hmmm, patch Tuesday has come and gone... where the heck did those updates go?

So I'm scouring my NM Rules, then App Rules... where i notice that my svchost.exe TCP & UDP Out is set to Block (parent of system).  So i change those to Allow, reboot, and Voila!

I must have gotten click happy one day on the app block rules 
 

[Goeroeboeroe]

This firewall makes me very happy, because for the first time in my life I can veto something! There's a question if something is allowed to go on Internet and I say 'no', and again 'no', and again.

And finally, the next day or so, I say 'yes, now you may go' and feel really powerful! It's the only thing in my life always obeying me!

So I solve this kind of problems all of the time.     

Peter

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