defender or windowsupdate not updating

12 May

dsl behind proxy

check this

http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp

if windowsupdate is not installing
and windowsdefender is not updating

run DRCTP021
set MTU to 1400

Reboot computer

turn off proxy settings in Internet Exploder.

It should now update

f you have Norton Internet Security or something similar installed
(e.g. some 3rd party firewall as mentioned in the article above),
you might need to reconfigure or disable it.

Here is more about this issue:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=OP%23Kh%24mgEHA.1184%40TK2MSF…

and
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=XarYc.641%24E37.471%40newsfe1-gu…

Some error 0x80072EE2 trouble sooting tips here as well:

http://www.updatexp.com/0x80072ee2.html

Also, you could have a MTU size issue on a router or similar, see the
quotes from a couple of recent post below:

From: chestersdad
Subject: RE: Sorry – I meant error 0x80072EE2
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 07:17:05 -0700
Message-ID: <946F02D3-412F-4EEA-AC0F-56D725B00E16@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsupdate


I tried everything and couldn’t get the update to work. I then
changed the MTU on my wireless router from 1500 to 1400 and it
worked fine.