"Mike" <mike.hatfield@hatfields.com.au> wrote in message
news:uHCUVXu7FHA.1032@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl
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> In the last week or so I've been getting hundreds of crypt32 event id 8
> messages in the event log.


Please describe your connection path (e.g. firewall, proxy, etc.)
It looks as if you might have a blockage in it for some reason.
Try to bypass any potential blockages if possible.
If you are trying to do port blocking be aware that you must allow
both 80 and 443 (for HTTP and HTTPS) for Windows Update
and its related sites to work properly.

One known cause of related problems is software called Web Accelerators
which try to use the Hosts file to speed up DNS lookups. That technique
is not applicable to sites which have a large number of IP addresses which
are frequently changed, such as the ones WU uses.


> Failed auto update retrieval of third arty root list sequence number from:
....

Test the addressability and connectivity of that site name in a cmd window
(e.g. using nslookup, and ping -n 1 or telnet 80)

www.download.windowsupdate.com


Hmm... apparently that whole URL is quite accessible

http://www.download.windowsupdate.co...uthrootseq.txt


Alternatively, there should be timestamps on your event log records.
Try to correlate them with what was happening at that time in the
WindowsUpdate.log Etc.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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