Failed update and more

[Menno Hershberger]

This might be more of a Windows Update problem, but three of these entries
in my event log look suspicious to me and may be spyware related.
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1:41:41 AM Source: SideBySide
Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.CRT could not be found and Last Error was
The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.

1:41:41 AM Source: SideBySide
Resolve Partial Assembly failed for Microsoft.VC80.CRT. Reference error
message: The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.

1:41:41 AM Source: SideBySide
Generate Activation Context failed for h:\bf2b2b8ddf40ddbb6b305baa0eb447c8
\SigStub.exe. Reference error message: The operation completed
successfully.

1:41:46 AM Source: Windows Update Agent
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with
error 0x80070643: Definition Update 1.14.1408.8 for BETA Windows Defender
(KB915597).
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I noticed my machine had rebooted this morning and I DO NOT WANT it
rebooting in the middle of the night. I had my automatic update settings to
download the updates and let me decide when to install them. However this
setting had changed itself back to "automatic".
"SideBySide" sounds suspicious. I Googled for that and Symantec listed
adware with that name. I searched my drive for sidebyside and sigstub.exe
and found nothing. I DO have an H drive but certainly no folder by the name
of "bf2b2b8ddf40ddbb6b305baa0eb447c8"
Windows Defender, AdAware, and Spybot Search & Destroy all came up clean as
they usually always do.
Does SideBySide mean anything to anybody?
http://mewnlite.com/sidebyside.gif

 

[Steve Dodson [MSFT]]

Can you send me:
c:\windows\windowsupdate.log
MSI install logs
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223300

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-steve

Steve Dodson [MSFT]
Windows Defender Beta Lead
MCSE, CISSP
http://blogs.technet.com/stevedod
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[Guest]

I ran Msiexec /x {A5CC2A09-E9D3-49EC-923D-03874BBD4C2C} and all is fixed. See
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=915105.

 

[Sergey M]

1:41:41 AM Source: SideBySide

Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.CRT could not be found and Last
Error was
The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.

Ran into the same problem. I believe Microsoft.VC80.CRT.dll comes with
Visual Studio 2005, which I don't have installed on this computer. On
another computer latest definitions installed just fine. I do have
Visual Studio 2005 installed on that other pc. This seems like a
broken dependency introduced in the latest update.

 

[Menno Hershberger]

Can you send me:
c:\windows\windowsupdate.log
MSI install logs
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223300

I uninstalled Defender. I figured I'd wait a few days and see if it gets
ironed out. I'll reinstall it and see if it happens again. If it does,
I'll send the log.