No more anti-spam filter or block list updates?

Our Exchange Server 2007 (Enterprise) was receiving these updates rather frequently until February 2nd. There was a connection error but then nothing. I just looked in the Microsoft update catalog and the server
is has the latest updates (compared against the Exchange console).
What gives? Did support stop? Or, when will the spam and block list updates resume? Our spam has increased dramatically since that date... I've been searching a lot but everything I find only talks about having
that service enabled, which it is.
TIA
Here are the latest versions I have installed:
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Block List Updates v3.3.14529.029 (2/2/2015)
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Anti-spam Filter Updates v3.3.14528.472 (1/29/2015)

Thank you for trying to help and offering that reply. I did try that originally. I've disabled and re-enabled both through the command line and through the management console. Everything shows that the updates
are off/on (as I make the change), indicating all the commands are working as they should.
Unfortunately, it seems there just aren't any updates. It doesn't make any sense. When I go to the link below, I don't see anything there beyond February
1st. And, I have all the updates through then (on the block/spam side) and I can receive manually and automatically all the updates for SBS 2008 in general since. It's just this one product feature not working/updating...
Is anybody getting updates for Exchange 2007 Enterprise?
Here's the link that's not showing any updates since February 1st, 2015:
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Rss.aspx?q=exchange+server+2007+anti-spam&lang=en

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