Windows Defender Error Code: 0x80073afc

Anonymous
2015-03-23T22:21:12+00:00

Hi, I receive this error code when i try to open Windows Defender and it says: An error as occurred, in the program during initialization. If this problem continues, please contact your system administrator. Error code 0x80073afc. And in the Action Center it says that Windows Defender is turned off.

Please help!

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-06-02T20:11:00+00:00

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    2015-06-02T22:36:44+00:00

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    2015-06-02T22:37:08+00:00

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    2015-06-02T22:37:31+00:00

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-06-03T00:56:59+00:00

    Hi,

    I believe is started again sometime mid April and I get the same error code.

    I don't think there are any updates that I would identify has suspicious.

    I ran a SFC (I'm not sure how to upload the logs to my OneDrive) but it says that: 

    Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log %WinDir% \Logs\CBS\CBS.log.

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