Updated Norton last week and now cannot access Windows Update (I choose Manual/Custom, but program never stops searching for updates). Microsoft has a couple of pages related to this issue from 2010 (mostly associated with full clean reinstalls of XP), but some of the procedures are complicated and time consuming. I have completed the easiest and most obvious, scan for viruses with Norton/malwarebites etc. and deleted cookies etc in IE8 with no luck. The next steps involve replacing various .dll files and then venturing into the registry to check and change things if necessary. Hoping to avoid that so I thought I would try here also as the problem occurred shortly after the Norton upgrade.
I'm running XP SP3 on an AMD 2600 with 4GB of Mem.
Thanks Dave