defender won t update and windows can t look for updates either:er

[oana]

80070005 is the no of the error.please help me! thank you

 

[Jesper]

Could you try manually updating it and see what happens? The instructions are
at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923159/

The error 80070005 means you have a permissions problem. There are several
possible reasons for this. One is if you have two (or more) firewalls
installed. You don't happen to have Norton Internet Security, or some other
security suite, installed do you? If so, you may have both that firewall and
the Windows firewall running, which could cause this problem. Do you know how
to check whether the firewall is running in that suite? You can check the
state of the Windows Vista built-in firewall in the Windows Firewall Control
Panel.

 

[oana]

you are right.. i have norton internet security and i looked in the windows
firewall and it was on. what do you advice me to do?to swicth off the windows
firewall ? i don t know to swicth the norton firewall off.. but i guess i ll
find it in the options.which is more protector for my comp?

thank you there much

 

[Jesper]

Interesting. I wish I knew why this seems to happen with Norton because the
Symantec installer should be smart enough to disable the Windows firewall.

Go ahead and disable the Windows Firewall and try updating. If that works,
would you please let me know? You can contact me off the newsgroup by going
to my blog (http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper) and clicking the Contact
link.

To disable the Windows Firewall do this:
1. Open the Control Panel
2. Open the Windows Firewall control panel
3. Click "Change settings."
4. Accept the elevation prompt
5. Check the "Off (not recommended)" radio button.
6. Click OK.

Now try updating Defender. Please let me know if this works. I would tell
you how to disable the Norton firewall, but I do not have it, so I do not
know.

 

[oana]

i resolved my problem with defender as you told me.. now the windows update
doesnt make the updates..with the same error.. tha windows firewall is off..
my question is.. where i can make the updates for windows manually?
thank you

 

[Alun Jones]

It's called "360" because Symantec's goal is complete ownership of your
computer, and with even less communication about what it's trying to do or
ways to configure it than ever before (which would only interfere with its
goal.) That, along with Symantec's famous technical support, makes Norton
360 a disaster that I would only install on Granny's computer if she was
going to disinherit me.

I thought it was called 360 because that's the number of days you'll be
unable to use your computer the way you want it to this year.

Alun.
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