Updating problem

[Alan]

Think I found the problem updating the definitions. If
you go to Help > About and click Diagnostics, you will
notice that the line labeled Definitions Increment
Version has a major error, at least it does on my
system. It says the increment is 82/78! Since 78
probably applies to 5725, 80 applies to 5727, and 82
applies to 5729, then in fact 5725 is installed, not 5729
as the Help dialog box displays.

When I checked the MSAS folder in c:\program files, I
noticed that the files associated with the definitions
were from June 9. The system thinks it has 5729, when in
fact it hasn't applied the new definitions at all. When
I checked the file sizes on Microsoft's web site, it said
that 5725's two files were 1397684 and 2513196 bytes in
length. When I checked on the Diagnostic dialog box, the
same two files were the exact same length as those for
5725. So, 5729's two files might have been downloaded,
but they aren't being applied.

Hopefully Microsoft can fix this bug so we all have the
most current definitions installed.

Alan

 

[Andre Da Costa]

There is a bug in the Microsoft AntiSpyware system information, hopefully
the MSAS Team will resolve this soon. Users have been experiencing problems
updating from definition 5725 to 5729, which caused by a bug in build 613
and build 614, but was possibly fixed in a update of build 614 release June
25.

Best recommendation, try downloading again:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...A2-6A57-4C57-A8BD-DBF62EDA9671&displaylang=en

Uninstall you existing installation and do a clean install.
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[Rick Miller]

I did a reboot on my PC this morning, and I check the diagnostics after
reading this post. Following is what my reports...but the defs increment
shows 80/80 but Help is reporting version 5727.

Microsoft AntiSpyware Version: 1.0.614
This version expires on: 12/31/2005
Spyware Definition Version: 5727 (6/28/2005 9:25:54 AM)


Security Agents Internet Enabled: True
Security Agents System Enabled: True
Security Agents Checkpoints: 59
Definitions Update Date: 6/28/2005 9:25:54 AM
AutoUpdater Enabled: 1
AutoUpdater AutoApply Enabled:
Definitions Increment Version: 80/80

 

[Rick Miller]

I just did a manual update and I got def version 5729 back.

I think this means the autoupdate function that ran when I rebooted does not
work.

Now reporting:

Microsoft AntiSpyware Version: 1.0.614
This version expires on: 12/31/2005
Spyware Definition Version: 5729 (6/28/2005 10:16:52 AM)

Definitions Update Date: 6/28/2005 10:16:52 AM
AutoUpdater Enabled: 1
AutoUpdater AutoApply Enabled:
Definitions Increment Version: 80/80

 

[plun]

Rick Miller has brought this to us :

I just did a manual update and I got def version 5729 back.

Hi

I dont believe that you have them back, its a ugly bug with
this.

Check for updates again and see if MSAS tries to update !
Its a never ending loop.

Also look within Program Files/ Microsoft Antispyware, look for
gcThreatAuditScanData.gcd and
gcThreatAuditThreatData.gcd

Either they are dated June 9 or June 16, if it really was working with
latest
update they are dated June 24.

 

[Rick Miller]

Yep...you are correct. They are dated the 16th.

 

[plun]

Rick Miller pretended :

Yep...you are correct. They are dated the 16th.

Hi

If you know what you are doing :')
Follow this, all credits to user "Taxman":

- Download Winzip or 7-Zip
http://www.7-zip.org/

Download these 3 files, right click-save to disk.
Compressed files !

http://download.spynet.com/ASDefinitions/gcDeterminationData.gcz
http://download.spynet.com/ASDefinitions/gcThreatAuditScanData.gcz
http://download.spynet.com/ASDefinitions/gcThreatAuditThreatData.gcz

- Open the first downloaded file and extract it with your Zip tool .
Do the same for the other.

- Right click on MSAS icon and choose shutdown.

- Copy/paste your extracted files to Program files / Microsoft
Antispyware
and choose to overwrite existing definition files.

- Start MSAS again and make a "check for updates" if you have latest
defs.

- If you have time, perform a full system scan directly with all
options checked.

 

[Rick Miller]

Thanks that apparently worked, plus I had to do another reboot soon after I
loaded those files, and the auto update did not step on them.

I now show the following:

AutoUpdater AutoApply Enabled:
Definitions Increment Version: 82/82
Definitions ThreatAuditThreatData: 1440535
Definitions ThreatAuditScanData: 2535978
Definitions DeterminationData: 487803

 

[Alan]

Plun,

The pages for the last two files are https://, not
http://.

Just thouht I'd let you know. It took me a few minutes
to realize that when I kept getting a "The page cannot be
found" error. The reason is the last two are the actual
definition files.

Alan

 

[plun]

Alan formulated the question :

Plun,

The pages for the last two files are https://, not
http://.

Just thouht I'd let you know. It took me a few minutes
to realize that when I kept getting a "The page cannot be
found" error. The reason is the last two are the actual
definition files.

Hi

Well, it was working for me, but now MS have changed it ........ )

You find the first message about this within "install" newsgroup.
Message named "Reinstall and install" and user "Taxman" found this
during a log check. At that time it was working ! And also yesterday
evening (GMT time).

Nevertheless this workaround is a little bit wild so hopefully MS
comes out with a solution.

 

[plun]

plun wrote on 2005-06-29 :

Alan formulated the question :

Hi

Well, it was working for me, but now MS have changed it ........ )

You find the first message about this within "install" newsgroup.
Message named "Reinstall and install" and user "Taxman" found this
during a log check. At that time it was working ! And also yesterday
evening (GMT time).

Nevertheless this workaround is a little bit wild so hopefully MS
comes out with a solution.

One more comment, this can be what causing MSAS to not accept
newer updates, it was wrong adress to version 5729 download for
the updater.

 

[plun]

Hi again

Change this again:

We have tested http:// within another Forum
and it IS working............ !?