Download.windowsupdate.com

Anyone else seeing issues with www.Download.windowsupdate.com scott

Windowsupdate is not a legitimate website. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_update/... Sean On 5/10/2017 1:00 PM, Scott Voll via Outages wrote:
Anyone else seeing issues with www.Download.windowsupdate.com <http://www.Download.windowsupdate.com>
scott
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Actually, I apologize, it seems the info in that thread is incorrect. WindowsUpdate is owned by Microsoft. I was seeing issues with it here in Central Texas as well. Sean On 5/10/2017 1:08 PM, Sean Morgan wrote:
Windowsupdate is not a legitimate website.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_update/...
Sean
On 5/10/2017 1:00 PM, Scott Voll via Outages wrote:
Anyone else seeing issues with www.Download.windowsupdate.com <http://www.Download.windowsupdate.com>
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The WHOIS information points to Microsoft, the IP address resolves to Microsoft's IP block, and the SSL cert was cut from Microsoft's CA, seems legit to me.
On May 10, 2017, at 1:08 PM, Sean Morgan via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote:
Windowsupdate is not a legitimate website.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_update/... <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_update/mrtexe-virus-and-windows-update-problems/1471f5ff-9395-4fd0-991c-a50a125d9941> Sean
On 5/10/2017 1:00 PM, Scott Voll via Outages wrote:
Anyone else seeing issues with www.Download.windowsupdate.com <http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/>
scott
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The www portion does not resolve, but http://download.windowsupdate.com resolves and redirects to Microsoft's FAQ. It doesn't look like getting updates from the browser is supported. On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Chris Swingler via Outages < outages@outages.org> wrote:
The WHOIS information points to Microsoft, the IP address resolves to Microsoft's IP block, and the SSL cert was cut from Microsoft's CA, seems legit to me.
On May 10, 2017, at 1:08 PM, Sean Morgan via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote:
Windowsupdate is not a legitimate website.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_ 1-windows_update/mrtexe-virus-and-windows-update-problems/ 1471f5ff-9395-4fd0-991c-a50a125d9941
Sean
On 5/10/2017 1:00 PM, Scott Voll via Outages wrote:
Anyone else seeing issues with www.Download.windowsupdate.com <http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/>
scott
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Seeing issues in North Texas. On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Nathan Coffren via Outages < outages@outages.org> wrote:
The www portion does not resolve, but http://download.windowsupdate.com resolves and redirects to Microsoft's FAQ. It doesn't look like getting updates from the browser is supported.
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Chris Swingler via Outages < outages@outages.org> wrote:
The WHOIS information points to Microsoft, the IP address resolves to Microsoft's IP block, and the SSL cert was cut from Microsoft's CA, seems legit to me.
On May 10, 2017, at 1:08 PM, Sean Morgan via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote:
Windowsupdate is not a legitimate website.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1 -windows_update/mrtexe-virus-and-windows-update-problems/147 1f5ff-9395-4fd0-991c-a50a125d9941
Sean
On 5/10/2017 1:00 PM, Scott Voll via Outages wrote:
Anyone else seeing issues with www.Download.windowsupdate.com <http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/>
scott
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