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Windows Defender Out of Date & Won't Update after Windows 10 Upgrade
I've been using Windows Defender -- updating and scanning fairly regularly since last February. After upgrading to Windows 10 yesterday, Defender showed up as out of date -- last updated in July. When I tried to update it from the Desktop App, it repeatedly failed. When I tried to update it from Windows Updates, none of the updates (including Windows Defender) would download. After rebooting and trying again-- more than once --most of the updates did download, but not Windows Defender and also an HP Update. Finally, after rebooting and trying again, they began to download, but did so slowly and seemed get stuck (e.g. at 50%). After continuing to reboot and restart the update, the percentage of the download at which it would seem to "stick" continued to rise (75% 83% 90%) until finally-- after rebooting and restarting the update several time --I managed to complete the download of the update and install it successfully. I am running a scan as I type this and the desktop app show windows defender as fully updated. Not sure what all this means, but none of the other help threads that I found via google directly addressed my problem so I wanted to document this for anyone else who is having similar problems.