Unable to communicate with sony update engine(error 10)

[yunnimun]

I tried switching the firewall **bleep** off but to no avail. Any help would be accepted with a great amount of gratitude.

Win 8

Avast

[jdhutt]

you could try running the application in windos XP or 7 compatibility mode

[Thommo]

Check Java is also upto date

[yunnimun]

How do I do that?
I updated the phone through a friend's pc.
But would be nice to know for the future.

[yunnimun]

Thanks. Will check my Java.
I know that thing wants to update almost weekly if not more often.