RE: Windows Update fails - Generic Host Process crashes; windows update has not passed logo testing

May not help but you could go to http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ and download this quick-and-dirty-recent-virus scanner (called Stinger) and see if maybe you're infected - it's in the interest of viruses and worms for you NOT to be able to download the Windows Updates . . .

dleinbach,

The info on the web page you cite has been superceded by KB822798 :

You cannot install some updates or programs
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822798
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Advise you to first check for the presence of Cool Web Search variants :

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

Download CWShredder from here :

(direct download) http://209.133.47.200/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe
or, if you are blocked by a DDos attack, from here :
http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.php#cws

The spyware/hijacker CoolWebSearch is being used by the Russian
Mafia to steer hijacked browsers to sites that either pay them or
pay them off not to attack them :

BBC NEWS Technology Trench warfare against viruses
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3689999.stm

Technology News Security Worm Variants Part of Russian Mafia
Extortion Scheme
http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/33127.html


MowGreen [MVP]
*-343-* Never Forgotten


dleinbach wrote:

> Nope - that's not it. Stinger ran clean; McAfee Antivirus as
> been run tens of times in the last week or so, just to be sure.
>
> I've followed the process described in the JSI FAQ, <A
> HREF="http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBN/tip6500/rh6571.htm">item
> 6571</A> up to performing an in-place upgrade of XP. So far, my
> efforts have been without success.
>
> Still looking for answers. Might the update patches themselves
> be flawed? Seems unlikely, but perhaps there's a subset of
> machines with characteristics the patches don't like?