Windows Update and Cod4 update

[JayFlip]

For some reason, after everytime I download a windows update, my cod4 seems to have to update itself. The file is either roughly 3 gigs, or at other times, exactly 6664.5MB.

Does anybody know why this occurs, or if it is preventable, other than not installing updates?

 

[5starGeneralAlphaSnake]

I have a update next time i turn off my comp ill report back

 

[JayFlip]

Somebody suggested that Windows Defender (many updates are definition updates) thinks CoD4 is malware, and cod4 has to prove that it isn't by re-updating. Thoughts?

 

[ronpaul]

Somebody suggested that Windows Defender (many updates are definition updates) thinks CoD4 is malware, and cod4 has to prove that it isn't by re-updating. Thoughts?

Maybe, but I think Defender would quarantine or delete a file that it finds to be malicious, and if it were a core file of cod4 then the game would have to verify (it's probably verifying, not re-downloading) all the game files, and then re-download the ones that were affected by Defender. This could be a punkbuster thing, but I'm trying to imagine how.

Does this happen for all updates or just those requiring a restart? If you downloaded just definitions that didn't require restarts would it still have to do this?

That's all a stretch, but possible. Defender is very passive so you don't see many alerts, and it has real-time protection which means it could be screwing with services and files in immediate memory it doesn't like. Has Defender ever prompted you about a file associated with cod4? Try disabling it and installing a windows update. Same result?

 

[ronpaul]

The fact that you mentioned Defender has me very narrow-minded, I'll try and think outside that box for better diagnostics, should those above fail.

 

[JayFlip]

Most of the recent updates have been either Intel chipset something, or windows def'n. The most recent needed a restart, others, I don't think did.

I don't actually see alerts from defender, its just those are the updates. I'm not sure, its just something that somebody else mentioned as a possibility

 

[ronpaul]

Most of the recent updates have been either Intel chipset something, or windows def'n. The most recent needed a restart, others, I don't think did.

I don't actually see alerts from defender, its just those are the updates. I'm not sure, its just something that somebody else mentioned as a possibility

and if you disable defender?

 

[JayFlip]

It just happened without me even installing any updates, but it only had to update roughly 1.4gigs.
(It started at 5200/6664 mb instead of 0/6664). I haven't tried disabling defender yet.