Last week I had Monday off, and I never got around to doing my 1 year ago post, so I’m really combining two weeks into this one. Work was so busy that I didn’t even do my wallpaper post, or Friday links post. I’ll try to make up for it this week.

A year ago I had just started getting into Podcast books, and told everyone about a great site to download Podcast Novels. I still make great use of this site. As a matter of fact, just today I posted about how to help a podcast novel author, and I first discovered her work over on PodioBooks.

Continuing on with the podcast novel theme, I also did a review of EarthCore and the author, Scott Sigler, was kind enough to drop by and leave a comment. Scott illustrated one facet of podcast authors, they love their audience, and really respond to their fans. Just the other day I received a response to an email I sent him.

On the technical side of things, there was a huge Skype outage, which was blamed on Windows Update rebooting a whole bunch of computers at the same time, and I told you how you can manually download definitions for Windows Defender.

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I ran into an issue where Windows Defender couldn’t download updates, when I would try, I would receive the error:

“The Program can’t download definition updates. Error Found 0×80240022″

This was occurring on a spyware ridden machine, and I was worried that it may be a piece of malware that was preventing the download. Maybe if I downloaded and installed the definitions manually, I would be able to run the scan.

After installing the definitions manually, Windows Defender was able to update itself. I’m not sure why, but that was the fix for this particular issue.

If you ever have a need to download Windows Defender definitions manually, the following link always points to the current definitions for the 32 bit versions of Windows:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=70631

If you are running an x64 version of Windows, this is the link:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=70632

Finally, if you are running an Itanium version of Windows, this is the link:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=70633

I found out about these links in Windows KB article 923159.

Reference:

How to manually download the latest definition updates for Windows Defender - Microsoft

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