I'm working on a machine that had some spyware virus issues. After lots of work, I have the internet and everything else working.. EXCEPT when i run windows update (actually trying to run microsoft update from update.microsoft.com) I get redirected to v4.windowsupdate.microsot.com......and so on.. It the older version 4 of the windows update that I believe windows 2000 users still use today. However this is a windows xp professional os with sp3 installed (manually). The problem is i think there are many updates im not getting thru this version 4. I think this may be some sort of spyware issue, possibly some remnent of something i removed that is causing some typw of redirect? I spent 3 hours with microsoft free tech support for security issues until they gave up and then decided it isnt in the scope of their services.

PLEASE HELP! I am really trying to avoid a reinstall as i have no cds for this pc.

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