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Microsoft Security Essentials wasn't able to check for virus & spyware definition updates. Virus & spyware definitions update failed

I immediately installed it for the customer on Sep 30. Not wanting the bloated stuff, I dragged my feet until MSE was released. Lately I had to work with a customer who "needs" AV software. Now that I have my own small business I finally have the satisfaction of banning AV software within my company. In the last few years of my working life I struggled with evading corporate requirements to have anti-virus software. All our computers are connected to the Internet all the time, and web browsing and emails are the major activities. It's 10 years later and none of our computers have been infected, not even once.

All our computers are running Microsoft Windows and none of them has AV software installed. So within my family you can find the full range of computer users. My wife uses the computer daily to check mail and browse the Internet but she belongs to the group of the most elementary and novice type of user you can find. My daughter started using Windows 95 at age 5 and went through the peak of virus mania circa post-2000. If you have problems updating the MSE anti-virus files due to a proxy server, you may want to skip the long story and jump to the last paragraph below.

Microsoft Security Essentials - Network and Connec.

I have started to wonder whether I should just buy an antivirus programm and stop wondering about Microsoft Updates until my laptop enters the Tech Museum, but the feeling that something's wrong won't stop to irritate me. Microsoft Help proposes to start a Service called BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) which can't be found in my list of Services. Microsoft "Fix It" could not also solve the problem. I reapplied your All In One repair tool which it took much longer to function this time and retried the Microsoft Update but it failed again - automatically and manualy! I tried to do the Microsoft Update but it failed Today that I rebooted my laptop everything had magically returned to its previous, normal condition. It seemed that the operation was succesfull but the patient passed away. After rebooting the computer there could be absolutely no connection to the Internet. It seemd that it had deleted System 32 (or a large part of it). * "Tdsskiller" found 7 "threads" of medium importance which I deleted. Bear in mind that I had already downloaded a "Registry Reviver" that usually finds about 5-10 errors every time. It corrected about 100 and asked for a formal and payed registration for the rest. * "Malwarebytes" found 630 (or was it 530?) errors but no virus signs. That was an interesting but painful experience.