Please try:

- Stopping the Automatic Updates service
- Deleting the %WINDIR%\SoftwareDistribution folder
- Starting the Automatic Updates service

You'll eventually get re-prompted to download / install the update again and
the install should then succeed.

Matt

"Aitionn" <Aitionn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8E53799A-FB08-44B3-8615-B7A0C680F267@microsoft.com...
>I cannot install the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - November
>2005
> (KB890830). It seems to download and then will not install telling me
> there
> was an installation failure.
>
> When I check the download history it reveals error code Error Code:
> 0x80246001.
>
> I have searched on this code but no one seems to know what it means
>
> Anyone out there can help please?
>
>
> Aitionn