Steve,
I doubt that I've got all that unique a situation, but....
I installed OneCare on all my computers prior to the April 1st media scare about Conflicker. Sure enough, one of my laptops cannot connect to the update.microsoft.com. That laptop has been infected with some virus for many months which has been screwing up search results on IE7 (and eventually Safari) which either produced bogus links to valid search results and then morphed into providing real links to real search results but then throwing the browser past the URL you chose to some junk website (which you often couldn't back out of).
OneCare cannot get any new updates on my laptop because the virus on my laptop (which OneCare can't detect, apparently) prevents the laptop from connecting to update.microsoft.com to get the latest XP security patches. And, just for fun, the virus turns off the Automatic Update settings each night. That OneCare doesn't seem to know this virus exists and is being defeated by it daily is either amusing or exasperating. And the generic fault code I get when the Update fails has to do with 'connection problems' which, of course, are not solvable with OneCare or XP.
Ideas?
