Windows Defender Final Version Unable to Download Issue

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Have tried repeatedly to download. Download gets to around 3.96MB and hangs.
Thought it was a server capacity issue at MS. All three systems (2 XP Home
and 1 XP Pro) have the same issue. NAV 2006 on Home, NAV 2007 on Home and
Avast on Pro. Windows Defender Beta 2 on all three. Spybot S&D on the NAV
2007 machine but not running realtime only immunization. Have downloaded
other programs and files from MS and other sites since with no issue but
Defender final doesn't like to complete save to disk. Tried to update with
online install with no joy. DL'd yesterday at work with no issues. Am
concerned that if I burn it to disk and bring it home, definition update
might not work. Have cleared all internet temp files and attempted several
downloads but it always hangs between 3.92 and 4.12 MB. The bestthat I been
able to acheive on any of the three PCs is 4.19MB using the MS site. This is
bizarre snce I have never had any issues (other than temporary)with downloads
at MS or elsewhere. I remembered that the MS download site made me install a
Windows advantage activeX component after i iclicked on the "validation
required" before it would give me the "download" button for MS Defender. I
have regularly installed the "advantage" activeX updates required previously
with no issues. All MS XP copies are legit so this should not be an issue.
Shut down Defender realtime but didn't make a difference. Anyone have any
ideas.
 
If you are using a wireless connection to do the download, try using a
non-wireless connection.
 
Excellent advice, Mr. Cat.

Copying the Defender installation file to a CD or "thumb drive" should
certainly work, as well. You might want to keep tools such as DotNetFx.exe
at the ready, just in case.
 
One PC is conected via ethernet cable and the other 2 via wireless. All
through Linksys router w/speedbooster. No joy on any connection. Its never
been an issue on any of the PCs and have downloaded many times with size
exceeding Defender form MS as well as others.
 
I know of 2 threads where the users fixed the problem by going through a non
wireless connection. Since you can't download via an Ethernet cable, you
might want to follow Scott D advice and see if you can download to a
removable media on another computer and then transport to your computer.
Also in the case of using an Ethernet cable, are you possibly using a program
(or made a registry change) that has modified the max TCP receive buffer
size? In some cases, I have seen download failures resulting from a conflict
where the NIC driver software also tries to set a conflicting receive buffer
size.
 
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