BITS and WinHTTP 5.1 updates

Every time I turn on my computer I get the message, updates ready to
install. I install them (BITS and WinHTTP 5.1) but the next time I turn the
computer on I get the same message. I'm using XP home.

Hi,
Please see if the following info from earlier posts helps

Symptoms

* Same Updates are repeatedly offered thru Windows Update (WU)/Auto Update
(AU). After the user installs the update, WU/AU report that installation was
successful, but scanning again shows the same updates. This cycle repeats.
Reboot doesn't solve the problem.
* KB842773 (BITS 2.0 package) will most likely be listed as the update being
repeatedly offered because it is a mandatory update on WU V5 and hence will
be the 1st update to be detected/installed repeatedly
* For XPSP2, the downloads may fail with 0x80242fff error.


Problem

There are some viruses/Trojans that are on the internet which causes some
processes with exe name as update.exe to be killed immediately. When a
process is killed, the exit code of the process is controlled by the caller
which kills the process. If the exit code from the killed install process is
0, then AU assumes that the install was successful.

Because of this, AU shows that the install was successful even though the
install did not succeed. Since no files would have been modified, the
updates are re-detected again and shown to the users.

Examples of viruses that kill update.exe are

W32/Bagle.X =>
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/bagle_x.shtml

Backdoor.Assasin.10 =>
http://securityresponse.symantec.com...r.assasin.html



Resolution

* Clean-up the machine using some good anti-virus software that can detect
and delete these viruses/trojans. After that, attempt the installs again
using WU/AU.

Note: This should not be seen as me recommending anti-virus software for
cleaning up any viruses, because the only completely safe way of cleaning up
a machine is to clean-install from a clean source (usually original CD).
This is because you never know what happened to your machine during the time
the virus was infected.

* If you don't have anti-virus software, Microsoft provides free anti-virus
software that can be used for 1 year from

http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/



--
Sudheer GN
Microsoft, BITS

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"Glen Hunsaker" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Every time I turn on my computer I get the message, updates ready to
> install. I install them (BITS and WinHTTP 5.1) but the next time I turn
> the
> computer on I get the same message. I'm using XP home.
>
>