Keylogging - don't be a victim

[Monkey]

I just use Automatic Update.

Automatic Update and Windows Update rely on many of the same services 'under the hood'. If any of those services are not running or are not running the right version, Windows Update can't even update itself. Depending on the error number you're getting (appears in light grey at the upper right hand side of the Windows Update page), there are a number of things you can do to manually set the services up and bootstrap yourself back into Automatic updates. Just search the Windows Update newsgroup at Microsoft for the error without brackets -- There seem to be a number of knowledgeable and helpful people who post there regularly. .

I had been having a similar problem for the last month or so, and put off resolving it until this most recent round of trouble. It turned out that I blocked ActiveX at my hardware firewall and then forgot about it. Even Automatic Update requires that you have ActiveX available. Once I corrected that, Windows installed the security updates, no problem.