![]() This is specifically bad right now, because very recently, the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine that MSSE and many other Microsoft security products are based on has had some critical bugs resulting in potential remote code execution exploits (at the highest privilege levels). Strangely though, sometimes it would work out of the blue, but mostly, it seems to be broken. ![]() Ok, on XP 圆4, MSSE was never supported to begin with (the last 64-bit version 4.4.304.0 for Vista works though), but the problem also showed up on supported systems, maybe because of their EoL status. With no error messages to be found anywhere, I had no idea what to do. It would download the new definitions, but not install them. Even more problematic was the fact that manual updates wouldn’t work anymore either. ![]() Microsofts’ Security Essentials software – let’s just call it MSSE – stopped updating itself. Recently, I ran into another issue on my old Windows XP 圆4 machines, and on regular XP and Windows Vista boxes as well.
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