I tried to restore iphone 3g via itunes but almost at the very end 1015 error window pops out. Tried ireb, tinyumbrella, recboot but it didn't solved the problem.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)
A guy a work had this problem. We searched a lot and found it was an issue with his anti virus software. Turned it off, and it updated just fine.