Microsoft Antispyware Help please!!!

[Guest]

WTF has happend to MSAS?? switched my pc on this morning and MSAS has
stopped running. it says that it has expired so i goto MS site and download
what it says is the latest version and try to run it, but guess what, it
says exactly the same thing again,out of date!! so i uninstall completely
MSAS, run a regclean to completely remove all traces then try again but to no
avail, it wont work full stop!!!
Ive used MSAS since it was very first introduced im running a completely
registered copy of XP and ive even given loads of feedback to MS when they
first started running MSAS reporting on bugs etc. Its been a fantastic tool
and ive NEVER i repeat NEVER had any virus's/hacking attempts/malicious files
etc while running MSAS alongside AVG antivir and the XP firewall. Please MS
help me out here i dont want to have to start using a different antispy
programm because MSAS has been so good at what it does.

 

[Guest]

Yo hoho and a bottle of rum!
lol a bottle for you if you stay at home...

hmmm sorry, i post the same question about Antispyware/Beta because the
previous version stop the 31/12/2005 and STAY AT DOWNLOAD (damn a 2k6-bug
? or they drink too much in Microsoft lol), don't download the proposed
version, it's the same as you have !
Just stand the new version and uninstall the version you have stand... or
change for an other antispyware !

 

[Guest]

This ought to be incredibly embarassing to Microsoft, but the version
available from MajorGeeks should be the new code that you are seeking.

I don't know if this is an issue with ISP's caching Microsoft downloads, or
with Microsoft's distribtion system itself.

 

[plun]

Hi

Or a users temporarily junkyard with a cached
615 setup copy.........

Save it to desktop !

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Hmm--I'd love to be able to replicate that, but I've updated all the
machines I now work with.

I'll try that advice first next time--it's really bad sending folks to
third-party sites for Microsoft code.

--

 

[plun]

Hi Bill

I´ve seen it, the old 615 setup file within
IEs cache...........

Rapid download MicrosoftAntiSpywareInstall.exe

Nevertheless, Save it to desktop forces this
to be the real file and if it is wrong file
the ISP caches, a corporate cache sends an old/wrong file
or Akamai has wrong file within the download server.

But "Save it to desktop" is the easiest way to check this.

And to be forced to go to a 3rd party site and DL MS programs is a
joke.


regards
plun



Bill Sanderson submitted this idea :

 

[Guest]

Problem solved!!!! Thanks to Bill for the link to Majorgeeks ( MS Please
will you all hold your Heads in shame) I actually solved it by going into
the MSAS program folder and manually running the updater(Satalite dish icon)
this gave me the update needed and hey presto all is well again.
Plun: I never cach downloads i always save to desktop..

Maybe Bill's boys(not you Bill Sanderson) partied to hard over christmas and
they are still recovering....oh well all's well that ends well!! Happy new
year Folks!!!

 

[Guest]

I'm interested in that process of manually running the updater.

I'm glad that works--and it looks like it should be the preferred
advice--but I don't understand why it works--I need a test machine, and I
don't have one handy at the moment with the old code still on it.

 

[Guest]

Yes Bill it definatly works ive just re run the whole process again just to
make sure heres what i did:

completely uninstalled MSAS then run ccleaner to completely rid of any files

run system restore back to the 31'st dec

reinstalled MSAS then checked to see that it "does not work" and it didnt

opened MSAS folder through program files look for updater icon(satalite dish)

double click icon and updater appears in system tray to inform you of new
version

accept new version download and MSAS updates as normal.


To me and you bill this might seem quite an easy fix but for people who are
not quite as adept at using windows this would be very offputting to say
the least.

Maybe there is a way to place this fix on this forum so people can got
straight to it?

 

[Guest]

Thanks - that looks real to me all right.

That should be the same action available through the menus--Microsoft
Antispyware Updater, as I recall.

 

[Dave Bolt]

Well, on a machine which has just been built there could not be anything in
the cache, so that is not the whole story, although I could see it being the
problem for some people.
Regards
Dave

 

[Guest]

I think you blokes have "solved" this problem for yourselves with pure luck.
I have not been able to install afresh or upgrade with downloads from MS or
Geeks even after running CCleaner and RegSeeker. And I am not able to run the
Update program from the Antispy file as I still get the expired message. I am
loathe to take the system back to before 31 Dec and so am open to all new
suggestions.