Error Code 80248015

I WAS TOLD BY SOMEONE ELSE TO GO INTOWINDOWS UPDATE CHANGE I THINK IT WAS THE 3RD ONE DOWN AND UNTICK THE BOX then I rebooted and I went back to update it took me to another error no then chrome came up and chrome  updated windows on chrome,idont know if its a one off or not I will just have to wait and see.

I've documented it within the blog post  Windows 7: Error 0x80248015 in Update Search (Dec. 4, 2017)

A simple workaround so far (until MS fixes the expire date) is to uncheck the option to update other Microsoft products - as mentioned within the blog post. 

helped in that process completed and an "optional" driver updte is shown [not that I download non-usoft drivers from usoft].  thank you, since this could go on until and including, hopefully, dec12'th security updates....unless someone at usoft wakes up and actually uploads a corrected, non-expired file to their update server

someone else told me to uncheck the box which I did a driver update didn't come up but it cleared windows update I did notice the update updated on chrome but I said no to internet explorer for defaults just before I changed the change settings so at that u can update windows update on chrome,i had a long conversation with Microsoft this evening they was no help at all they want everyone to upgrade to 10,when a lot of us don't like 10 as its unstable

change your browser to chrome and update on chrome but first uncheck 3rd one down in change settings I did another code came up but when I rebooted chrome came up for windows then it updated

Here's a dumb question...

I unchecked the box indicated in Born's blog

WU checked but didn't find any new ones. So I went back to the WU settings screen with the intention to re-check the box I'd unchecked. BUT, it's not there any more! How do I get that option back again...??

This what I see now:

That's a known issue. I've added a note to my article and linked to some blog posts to fix this issue. But this isn't helpful now, because: If you re-enable both missing checkboxes, you are back at error 0x80248015.

MS has to fix that mess  (won't go into the detail, but a file authorization.xml need to be updated). I've written a post here in MS Answers forum about that issue - hope a forum moderator forwards it to the product group.

I wanted to re-check that box so I'd be prepared for whenever MS gets around to fixing their latest WU mess, but didn't know about this hidden bug. And my German is very rusty so I didn't even want to try to follow your instructions.

But, I found a very simple way to fix the problem with the missing update options on the WU settings screen.  I uninstalled MS Silverlight and immediately reinstalled it, which took less than ~5 min, in total. At the end of the SL install there's an options box for getting updates.  I checked that box and the missing update options immediately reappeared on the WU settings screen. Fixed!

I wish MS would get their act together. I'm tired of wasting my time dealing with their mess d'jour..!

Any word on when Microsoft will be sending out a fix?