Windows Defender Antivirus Network Inspection Service issues since Windows 10 2004 update

Anonymous
2020-08-06T08:15:09+00:00

I got the 2004 update yesterday and that went well enough otherwise but I am having a problem with the Windows Defender Antivirus Network Inspection Service that I did not have previously. 

  1. I noticed in Event Viewer several Errors that began immediately upon completion of the update last night: 

The Microsoft Defender Antivirus Network Inspection Service service depends on the Microsoft Defender Antivirus Network Inspection System Driver service which failed to start because of the following error: 

The supplied user buffer is not valid for the requested operation.

  1. Further inspection has revealed that there is now a problem with Real Time Updates. 

Microsoft Defender Antivirus Real-Time Protection feature has encountered an error and failed.

  Feature: Network Inspection System

Error Code: 0x8007042c

Error description: The dependency service or group failed to start. 

Reason: The system is missing updates that are required for running Network Inspection System.  Install the required updates and restart the device.

I've got this error repeatedly (3002). 

  1. I went into security and maintenance to see what was going on with my security settings. That is not showing anything "wrong." 
  2. The Network Inspection Service is configured to manual, not automatic. I can't change this. 
  3. Real-time protection is on, and has been on. On Virus & threat protection settings, all of those are still toggled on, and those settings are the same before and after the upgrade. I haven't tried turning them on and off again yet. 
  4. I already did the August Safety scan, but I downloaded a fresh copy and am re-running it. 
  5. I did dism and sfc checks and they showed no problems that needed repair. 

Something is definitely wrong with the install of Windows Defender tho... Help? How do I fix this and stop the errors and get it reconfigured properly. Do I have to reinstall it?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-14T10:55:22+00:00

    version 1903 build 18362.959 after the automatic updates were applied on August 9, 2020

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-14T08:21:30+00:00

    What OS version are you running?

    This is the machine WdNisDrv.sys won't run on, but I checked some others and it runs fine on those.

    It seems to be an incompatibility with Core Isolation / Memory Integrity, the machines that WdNisDrv.sys works fine on don't have that enabled.

    I'm on

    Windows 10 Pro

    2004

    Installed on 8/11/2020

    OS Build 19041.450

    Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.31.0

    So it makes me wonder if either there is a delay in receiving the update (tonight all I got was a few AV definition files which did bring me current and an Nvidia driver update, which I ultimately had to get directly from the vendor to install). 

    Still no update to KB4052623 that would bring my AV Client to 2008.4 ... and my Windows version also does not match this. The Microsoft Update Catalog still has no download for this update, and the Microsoft Security Intelligence update page still reflects 2007.8 as the latest revision. 

    So I wonder if some people are participating in the insider program? 

    One thing was resolved though with respect to process explorer; the strange output being seen on Memory Isolation and Registry are a known bug.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-14T05:33:05+00:00

    What OS version are you running?

    This is the machine WdNisDrv.sys won't run on, but I checked some others and it runs fine on those.

    It seems to be an incompatibility with Core Isolation / Memory Integrity, the machines that WdNisDrv.sys works fine on don't have that enabled.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-13T23:25:07+00:00

    What OS version are you running?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-08-13T00:18:52+00:00

    I managed to get the BIOS updated by doing it outside of windows using the BIOS itself, so that's one problem solved, yay!

    Turns out Windows was interfering with the normal method, and I have no idea why because it usually works fine.

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