Windows Update disables on reboot

Hi, im running my laptop on XP SP2 and every time i reboot it i get the same
message saying automatic updates are turned off and i have to manualy turn
them back on again in the security centre.

I have run numerous spyware and virus scans that have all come back clean
and i tried reinstalling SP2 as well but all to no avail.

Any help would be much apreciated. Thanks in advance.

I'm also running SP2 on laptop and am experiencing exactly the same problem.
Following reboot, security center informs me that automatic updates have been
turned off.
However, in order to restart Automatic Updates, I have to remove a REGEDIT
entry that has marked Automatic Updates for deletion.
I'm pretty sure its a virus, but it seems to be one that has evaded my
Microsoft AntiSpyware, my firewall, and ad-aware. I presumed they'd be able
to identify it.

Does anybody know what the virus is called and how it can be removed?

Thanks, and good luck Mr_Moe



"Mr_Moe" wrote:

> Hi, im running my laptop on XP SP2 and every time i reboot it i get the same
> message saying automatic updates are turned off and i have to manualy turn
> them back on again in the security centre.
>
> I have run numerous spyware and virus scans that have all come back clean
> and i tried reinstalling SP2 as well but all to no avail.
>
> Any help would be much apreciated. Thanks in advance.

Finally fixed it after ages of ignoring it. seems to be a missing registry
value. to solve it i manually created a registry value at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Security Center
in here there are values like AntivirusOverride, FirewallOverride,
UpdatesDisableNotify etc... about 6 values. There was no value here for
"UpdatesOverride" on my machine so i added it in as a REG_DWORD and set it to
0. this seems to have solved my problem.

"luke_thomas" wrote:

> I'm also running SP2 on laptop and am experiencing exactly the same problem.
> Following reboot, security center informs me that automatic updates have been
> turned off.
> However, in order to restart Automatic Updates, I have to remove a REGEDIT
> entry that has marked Automatic Updates for deletion.
> I'm pretty sure its a virus, but it seems to be one that has evaded my
> Microsoft AntiSpyware, my firewall, and ad-aware. I presumed they'd be able
> to identify it.
>
> Does anybody know what the virus is called and how it can be removed?
>
> Thanks, and good luck Mr_Moe
>
>
>
> "Mr_Moe" wrote:
>
> > Hi, im running my laptop on XP SP2 and every time i reboot it i get the same
> > message saying automatic updates are turned off and i have to manualy turn
> > them back on again in the security centre.
> >
> > I have run numerous spyware and virus scans that have all come back clean
> > and i tried reinstalling SP2 as well but all to no avail.
> >
> > Any help would be much apreciated. Thanks in advance.