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
    2020-08-17T13:58:26+00:00

    Hi USIKPA,

    Yes I am having 7000 & 1001 errors too.

    In addition today for the first time I received an errore message 36871 "...while creating a TLS client credential"

    Best

    Miki

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-17T13:47:40+00:00

    007 - You're a brave man, but I'm not going that route.

    What is NIS?

    No  need to re-install anything. Just complete the sequence:

    Remove WD SES Device - Core Isolation back "on" - Use WD SES Device.

    Yes, that WD driver has had itself reinstalled on my system, too. An yet, Windows Defender Network Inspection service is up and running on my system (after the latest Windows Defender platform update), so is the Core isolation. Just plugging in the WD device doesn't set it to "off"

    That sequence you described does not fix the Network Inspection Service not running, and I never claimed plugging the drive in sets memory integrity to off.  

    In fact I stated the exact opposite of that. 

    As long as memory integrity is set to on BEFORE plugging the drive in then it's all good, except for the fact that on my system the Network Inspection Service not running had absolutely nothing to do with the WD SES Device drivers in the first place.

    Removing the WD SES Drivers never solved the problem for me at all.

    A re-install was the only way I could get the Network Inspection Service working again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-17T13:44:49+00:00

    USIKPA - are you getting the 7000 and 7001 errors?

    As I said, the Windows Defender Network Inspection service is up and running on my system (in fact, I can't even stop it from the Services Interface). Hence, no 7000/7001 errors by far.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-17T12:10:31+00:00

    USIKPA - are you getting the 7000 and 7001 errors?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-08-17T11:05:59+00:00

    007 - You're a brave man, but I'm not going that route.

    What is NIS?

    No  need to re-install anything. Just complete the sequence:

    Remove WD SES Device - Core Isolation back "on" - Use WD SES Device.

    Yes, that WD driver has had itself reinstalled on my system, too. An yet, Windows Defender Network Inspection service is up and running on my system (after the latest Windows Defender platform update), so is the Core isolation. Just plugging in the WD device doesn't set it to "off"

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