OS: Microsoft Windows XP / Home Edition / Version 2002 / Service Pack 3
PC: Dell brand XPS 410
VirusRemover2008 (or something which came packaged with or containing) has
disabled Automatic Updates and all attempts to reenable it from Windows
Security Center, System Properties (which displays Automatic Updates as
enabled), and Services (services.msc) fail due to the virus automatically
switching Automatic Updates off again (in the case of Services, even before
the configuration tab is closed). The virus also changes Internet Explorer's
security settings to accept all cookies and prevents security from being
enabled again in the same manner.
My question is whether there is a way to manually access updates for
Windows. My hope is that either my virus detection software will advance
enough to detect this type of virus and fix the damage, or a Windows update
will help block the exploit the virus is using to forcibly change these
configurations. While Automatic Updates is disabled, however, the
conventional update methods don't work, hence my problem.
(If there is a log file or some sort of data archive which would tell me
where the instructions are coming to change these security settings,
theoretically I could figure out how to disable them manually as well, but
I'm pretty inept with computers, so I'm hoping AVG or Windows Update will
provide an easier answer.)
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