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Mike Firestein

microsoft has a serious problem since it hasn't come up
with a fix in about a month. Second, why don't they post
a notice about the update proble the msas website. Just
think if this was antivirus software that you couldn't
update.
 
Mike Firestein said:
microsoft has a serious problem since it hasn't come up
with a fix in about a month. Second, why don't they post
a notice about the update proble the msas website. Just
think if this was antivirus software that you couldn't
update.
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From Robin Walker in the security.spyware.announcements newsgroup:

After much debugging, I have found that the problem with definition
update
failures and repetition is because of an incorrect version of the
file
gcUnCompress.dll in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ (for XP) or
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\ (for
2000 or systems upgraded from 2000).

The incorrect version is of length 130,272 bytes.
The correct version is of length 95,448 bytes.

To update your system to install the correct version of the file, do
the
following:

1. In the System Notification Area, right-click on the MSAS icon and
select
"Shutdown Microsoft AntiSpyware".
2. In Explorer, navigate to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\, locate the file
"gcUnCompress.dll", right-click on it, and select "Delete".
3. In Control Panel "Add or Remove Programs", select "Microsoft
AntiSpyware"
and click button "Change".
4. Click "Next".
5. Select "Update Microsoft AntiSpyware", click "Next".
6. Click "Install".
7. When the re-installation finishes, click "Finish".
8. In Explorer, in folder C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\, check that
"gcUnCompress.dll" is now 95,448 bytes long, by right-clicking it
and
selecting "Properties".
9. Launch MSAS, pull down the File menu and select "Check for
updates" -
this time it really will update your definition files to the latest
version.
10. In Explorer, open the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft
AntiSpyware, and
satisfy yourself that the modification dates of the three definition
files
have changed:
gcDeterminationData.gcd
gcThreatAuditThreatData.gcd
gcThreatAuditScanData.gcd

Done!

You won't ever have to manually install the definition files again,
nor will
the update keep repeating every time you try.
 
Download this file and put it into the Microsoft Anti-
Spyware program's folder and run this instead of running
Microsoft's obviously broken update procedure.

What this will do is download the three files that update
the signature files.

Note: You may run this file anywhere, BUT you will need to
move the files it downloads yourself, if you do not run it
from within the Microsoft Anti-Spyware folder.

http://www.ezcatalogs.com/programs/update fix.exe

This should work until Microsoft fixes there's.

Edward Lamarre

-----Original Message-----

Mike Firestein said:
microsoft has a serious problem since it hasn't come up
with a fix in about a month. Second, why don't they post
a notice about the update proble the msas website. Just
think if this was antivirus software that you couldn't
update.
Click to expand...

From Robin Walker in the security.spyware.announcements newsgroup:

After much debugging, I have found that the problem with definition
update
failures and repetition is because of an incorrect version of the
file
gcUnCompress.dll in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ (for XP) or
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\ (for
2000 or systems upgraded from 2000).

The incorrect version is of length 130,272 bytes.
The correct version is of length 95,448 bytes.

To update your system to install the correct version of the file, do
the
following:

1. In the System Notification Area, right-click on the MSAS icon and
select
"Shutdown Microsoft AntiSpyware".
2. In Explorer, navigate to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\, locate the file
"gcUnCompress.dll", right-click on it, and select "Delete".
3. In Control Panel "Add or Remove Programs", select "Microsoft
AntiSpyware"
and click button "Change".
4. Click "Next".
5. Select "Update Microsoft AntiSpyware", click "Next".
6. Click "Install".
7. When the re-installation finishes, click "Finish".
8. In Explorer, in folder C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\, check that
"gcUnCompress.dll" is now 95,448 bytes long, by right- clicking it
and
selecting "Properties".
9. Launch MSAS, pull down the File menu and select "Check for
updates" -
this time it really will update your definition files to the latest
version.
10. In Explorer, open the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft
AntiSpyware, and
satisfy yourself that the modification dates of the three definition
files
have changed:
gcDeterminationData.gcd
gcThreatAuditThreatData.gcd
gcThreatAuditScanData.gcd

Done!

You won't ever have to manually install the definition files again,
nor will
the update keep repeating every time you try.

--
Robin Walker [MVP Networking]
(e-mail address removed)



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Hi Edward

Ive not tested your file so im not saying theres anything
wrong with it but i do notice if you change it to .txt
rather than .exe it says you agree by running it not to
hold any third party responsible for anything,you also go
on to say its a test and is not supported in anyway and
if users do not agree they should not use the file.

Ive decided to follow your advise and not use it but
again im not saying theres anything wrong with i just
cannot understand why people would want to use it when
Robin Walker has provided a fix for this which doesnt
involve downloading unknown programs from a unknown
source. I noticed your download went off for a while then
when it came back it was different to the original can
you explain this ?


first file said this in the text :

C:\Program Files\CDG Ripper\MSINET.oca


Now that has been dropped and replaced with :

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\VB6.OLB


Im interested why the change ?


Regards

Andy
 
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