{"id":3423,"date":"2013-06-06T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2013-06-06T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:51:00","slug":"microsoft-security-essentials-unable-to-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3423","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Security Essentials - Unable to Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giving error 0x80072efe popup.<\/p>\n<p>It is caused by a rootkit. Problem <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/protect\/forum\/mse-protect_updating\/unable-to-update-definitions-error-0x80072efe\/aef3e35e-0bb2-4f1e-bf23-5b695b0c3feb\" target=\"_blank\">solved <\/a>by using Kaspersky's freeware: tdss killer, which detected the rootkit and cured it. After a required reboot, everything else works.<\/p>\n<p>This NYGC machine (STUDENT05) is one I just reinstalled Vista on. So, I am clueless as to how the PC was infected so quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving error 0x80072efe popup. It is caused by a rootkit. Problem solved by using Kaspersky's freeware: tdss killer, which detected the rootkit and cured it. After a required reboot, everything else works. This NYGC machine (STUDENT05) is one I just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3423\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}