Is Windows Update down today?

[VirtualLarry]

Tried accessing Windows Update at a friend's house (Comcast cable internet), and it gives some error immediately, before it even attempts to scan the HD.

For kicks, once I got home, I tried the same thing with my machine (Verizon DSL), and it gives the same sort of error right away.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

works fine for me! perhaps the servers in your area are having problems?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Still giving me errors. I wonder if it could be MS's servers filtering my IP address as a bogon. VZ has been using some new IP ranges that were previously bogons, and if a server's firewall hasn't updated their bogon range listings, well, I would get denied a connection.

71.184.162.x is my IP. Anyone know if that's on a bogon list?

Edit: It seems that 70.x and 71.x were previously bogons.
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MS needs to get with the program, and stop filtering out VZ users. :mad;

 

[stash]

Can you post your c:\windows\windowsupdate.log file? At least the entries from today (or whenever you tried to get to WU).

 

[VirtualLarry]

I just tryed going to WindowsUpdate on my friend's machine (comcast cable), and this is what I get:

2009-01-21	19:23:37:250	3388	cc4	Misc	===========  Logging initialized (build: 7.2.6001.788, tz: -0500)  ===========
2009-01-21	19:23:37:250	3388	cc4	Misc	  = Process: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE
2009-01-21	19:23:37:250	3388	cc4	Misc	  = Module: C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuweb.dll
2009-01-21	19:23:37:250	3388	cc4	Misc	Validating signature for C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv3wuredir.cab:
2009-01-21	19:23:37:281	3388	cc4	Misc	WARNING: Error: 0x80092026 when verifying trust for C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv3wuredir.cab
2009-01-21	19:23:37:281	3388	cc4	Misc	WARNING: Digital Signatures on file C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv3wuredir.cab are not trusted: Error 0x80092026
2009-01-21	19:23:37:625	3388	cc4	Misc	Validating signature for C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv3wuredir.cab:
2009-01-21	19:23:37:625	3388	cc4	Misc	WARNING: Error: 0x80092026 when verifying trust for C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv3wuredir.cab
2009-01-21	19:23:37:625	3388	cc4	Misc	WARNING: Digital Signatures on file C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv3wuredir.cab are not trusted: Error 0x80092026
2009-01-21	19:23:38:265	3388	cc4	Misc	Validating signature for C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv3wuredir.cab:
2009-01-21	19:23:38:265	3388	cc4	Misc	WARNING: Error: 0x80092026 when verifying trust for C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv3wuredir.cab
2009-01-21	19:23:38:265	3388	cc4	Misc	WARNING: Digital Signatures on file C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv3wuredir.cab are not trusted: Error 0x80092026
2009-01-21	19:23:38:281	3388	cc4	WUWeb	FATAL: CheckIfClientUpdateNeeded failed: error 0x80092026

 

[stash]

Have a look at this: http://www.tech-archive.net/Ar.../2006-12/msg00331.html

Not sure if that is what's causing it, but it's a start.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I should have thought of that. On both his machine and my machine, I recently implemented Software Restriction Policies.

I thought that it wouldn't apply to the Admin accounts, since I checked to "apply to all accounts, except local administrators".

I also checked "Allow the following users to select trusted publishers: Local Computer Administrators", and "Before trusting a publisher, check the following to determine if the certificate is revoked: Publisher".

But I never get prompted by IE whether or not I want to trust the publisher of that ActiveX control. (I thought MS was trusted by default, no?)

I'm using the local Admin account to access Windows Update.

Edit: I changed "Allow the following to select trusted publishers:" to "Users", and now WindowsUpdate works again.