AutoUpdater-No Internet Connection Issue

[cbemis]

MSAS on 3 home computers. All XP-Pro-SP2, similar Internet
Connectivity (Wi-Fi and ether), all with similar software,
software firewall, hardware firewall, etc. From the
beginning, I had one of the computers that could never
perform the manual AutoUpdate but the Automatic Updates
always seemed to work. Manually, the AutoUpdater on this
one box failed because of "Failure to Detect Intenet
Connection"
but connectivity anywhere was never any issue except this
one case with MSAS.

BINGO !!!!! I finally found this nagging issue and fixed it.
Who-da thunk Giant, now MSAS, would have "hooked" the
software into MS Internet Explorer and IE's Connectivity
Options ?? Just open IE, Tools, Internet Options,
Connections, LAN Settings, and be sure that "Automatically
detect settings" is checked. As soon as I did this, the
manual AutoUpdate works and MSAS can find the Internet
Connection on this particular computer.

Now, the only stupid remaining issue on all three boxes,
all with Microsoft AntiSpyware Version: 1.0.614, is the
flip-flopping between Definition Update Versions, between
5729 and 5731, although 5731 is always the version in
operation. WTH, it is only "Beta", but it works. Now
MS has to clean up this mess and make MSAS more robust.

 

[plun]

Hi

MSAS is already robust but MS changes functions all the time.
"Life jacket for IE6" Great that you resolved "auto detection".

How to update, workaround.

Right click on MSAS icon within systray and choose shutdown.

Right click and "Save target as..."
http://download.spynet.com/ASDefinitions/gcDeterminationData.gcd

http://download.spynet.com/ASDefinitions/gcThreatAuditScanData.gcd

http://download.spynet.com/ASDefinitions/gcThreatAuditThreatData.gcd

Copy/paste these files to Program files/Microsoft Antispyware

Restart MSAS and "check for updates"

Over and out.

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plun











cbemis formulated on söndag :

 

[cbemis]

Hi, and Thank you !

That works, and fixes the stupid "Update Version"
round-robin snafu. What a PIA and I get to do it two
more times on the other two computers. MSAS needs to be
more robust and it won't save IE-6 despite the "hooks"

Curt...

 

[Robin Walker [MVP]]

BINGO !!!!! I finally found this nagging issue and fixed it.
Who-da thunk Giant, now MSAS, would have "hooked" the
software into MS Internet Explorer and IE's Connectivity
Options ?? Just open IE, Tools, Internet Options,
Connections, LAN Settings, and be sure that "Automatically
detect settings" is checked. As soon as I did this, the
manual AutoUpdate works and MSAS can find the Internet
Connection on this particular computer.

Nice theory, but I have MSAS working on very many PCs with "Automatically
detect settings" unchecked.

"Automatically detect settings" only has any real functionality on corporate
networks that support the WPAD protocol (Web Proxy Auto Discovery). In any
other network, having "Automatically detect settings" checked will slow down
the first launch of any IE window, and is therefore not recommended.

You might find that MSAS continues to work if you now uncheck this setting
again.