Try Disabling and then re-enabling Defender as here :
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/0...nder-in-vista/
Check Services.msc to be sure Defender Services are running.
"DJ_Jones" <> wrote in message news:43b0301a-d8d6-450c-9196-...
> My Windows Defender failed to get new updates. The latest one is from
> June 16. I tried all the tricks in microsoft.com website (such as mpas-
> fe.exe or deleting the SoftwareDistribution folder in c:\windows) and
> all have not helped at all.
>
> Any new remedy for this recurrent issues?
>
> Thanks