I can't enable Automatic Updates?

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

Something has happened and I cannot enable Audomatic Updates. I go to the
control in Control Panel, and Turn Off Automatic Updates is selected, but
everything is grayed out, and I cannot select Automatic. The service is
started.

It may or may not be related, but my Scheduled updates for MacAfee Virurscan
also are not working.

In both cases, I can manually update sucesfully.

Thanks for any insight you may have.

 

[Malke]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

DaleP wrote:

> Something has happened and I cannot enable Audomatic Updates. I go to
> the control in Control Panel, and Turn Off Automatic Updates is
> selected, but
> everything is grayed out, and I cannot select Automatic. The service
> is started.
>
> It may or may not be related, but my Scheduled updates for MacAfee
> Virurscan also are not working.
>
> In both cases, I can manually update sucesfully.
>
> Thanks for any insight you may have.

Please go through malware removal steps here:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Since your McAfee's virus definitions are not current, I would start by
scanning with Sysclean (instructions on the website). You will probably
need to get all tools/updates from a different, known-clean machine
with Internet access and a cd burner (or have a usb thumbdrive with
enough capacity to transfer the files.

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"