No Antivirus Or Malware/Spyware App Will Update

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by DasFox, Dec 4, 2009.

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  1. DasFox

    DasFox Registered Member

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    Avira, MB's, SAS, any antivirus or malware app will not update.

    I pulled the hard drive and scanned it on my box with MB's and SAS and gmer and it came back clean.

    Then I put the hard drive back, reinstalled MB's and still clean, I also check with HijackThis and it was also ok.

    I checked the DNS they are fine and the Hosts file is ok too.

    For the life of me I can't figure out where the problem is coming from.

    Any help would be appreciated, this one is a pain!


    By the way are these reg keys ok?

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\OptionalComponents\IMAIL
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\OptionalComponents\MAPI
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\OptionalComponents\MSFS


    THANKS
     
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  2. DasFox

    DasFox Registered Member

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    I got it, but how the HELL does IE cause all the AV and malware apps to not be able to download?

    IE had a loopback IP and port in it, then I reset all of IE settings back to default and restarted it and when I did the apps updated. :)

    WoOT!
     
  3. cybrguy

    cybrguy Registered Member

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    Have you tried running MalwareBytes on that system? There are spyware pests that will redirect security update requests to 127.0.0.1, meaning they won't get out of your box.
     
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