Re: Cannot Update Windows!!

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For more than a year, I have been unable to update my version of Windows XP.

Your computer's been infected with hijackware for more than a year.

Backup your personal data, then do a format & clean install of Windows. Please note that a Repair Install (AKA in-place upgrade) will NOT fix this!

After the clean install, you'll have the equivalent of a "new computer" so take care of everything on the following page before otherwise connecting the machine to the internet or a network and before using a USB key that isn't brand-new or hasn't been freshly formatted:

5 steps to help protect your new computer before you go online
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/advanced/xppc.mspx

Also see:

Steps To Help Prevent Spyware
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/spyware/prevent.mspx

Rogue Security Software - Microsoft Security:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/rogue.mspx
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


WYSIWYG wrote:
For more than a year, I have been unable to update my version of Windows XP.
Currently, whenever or however I attempt to reach the Windows Update site, I
am sent to Google. Any way I try, I am sent to Google. I've done everything
that I can think of to try to resolve this, all to no avail. If you know of
any way to help, please post your advice.

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