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The broken signature file affected not only Windows Defender. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) and also System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) has been bricked too. We have had a similar thing in March 2019 …

SCEP/MSE/Defender: Broken Signatureupdate kills Microsoft Antivirus (04/16/2020)

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It turns now out, it was a April fool prank …

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woody wrote:

@EP just posted a link to a Softpedia article saying that the SMBv3 patch, KB 4554364, triggers a “Socket error 0×2200021. c:/windows/sywow64/appidpolicyengineApi.dll, instruction cannot be read.”

I don’t believe, that Bodgan Popa is right with it’s Softpedia article. I tried to sort things a bit out and I browsed the Italian MS answers forums, where the error is reported.

Windows 10: “Socket Error 0×2200021” and WiFi issues

Currently I have no idea, what’s causing this error.

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[gborn]

Karlston wrote:

FWIW, MSPoweruser has an article about it…

https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-update-breaks-antivirus-scans-windows-10/

 

Well MSPU and WindowsLatest are the sites, that never credited other sources – so both went here on my black list – especially MSPU (after an internal battle, because their admins  marked me for ‘spamming’ due to 4 posts in 2 years to some of my blog posts containing additional details about topics they ‘also covered’ – beside many other sites …) ;-).

Due to this experience, I decided to post here on askwoody.com – and I’m in contact with Lawrence Abrams from Bleeping Computer. Both sites are my 1st source for valuable information and information exchange (beside some German sites from blogging collegues).

Forgot: I’m also in exchange with Bodgan Popa from Softpedia.

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After I contacted Microsoft’s Windows Update group, we finally have a fix with update kb4052623

Update KB4052623: Microsoft fixes Defender Scan Skip Bug

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Found a workaround to supress the skip message – see my blog post

Windows 10: Fix for skipped Defender scans

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I can reproduce it on my Win 10 V1909 test machine – let run a quick scan.

From my German blog readers I got the feedback that 80% sees this message, while raw about 20% didn’t get the notification. No idea what’s behind that. My glance into the event logs didn’t show any entries.

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[PKCano]

From the launch of Windows 10, our focus was on moving people from having, to choosing, to loving Windows. With the release of every new build of Windows 10, we have seen customer satisfaction improve as we have made fixes and added new capabilities and experiences. We are humbled that customers are choosing and loving Windows 10,

Maybe it’s the language and cultural gap.

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anonymous wrote:

“none of this is of any genuine value…”

… from the perspective of an experienced user who’s seen it all before.  However, Microsoft would see it as having advertising value. Who knows, maybe one in a billion people actually find it useful.

As I outlined the experience Barb Bowman made a year ago. She had Windows Helo and also Office on a surface and got offered that bull**** ad in a Windows Insider Preview. Barb has mentioned at that time on Twitter – and got a reply from Jen Gentleman (MSFT) that it has been introduced internally within some previous Insider Previews.

It’s senseless, it’s clue less, it’s bull**** nobody like to see – but Redmond don’t care.  They don’t hesitate to advertise their broken Eco system called Windows 10. Imho.

See the whole story at:
Windows 10 V1903/1909: Nag Screen ‘Let’s make Windows even better …’
and my thoughts about:
The homemade structural IT crisis

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I received user feedback from several users reporting install errors 0x800f0988 and 0x800f0900 during installing Update KB4551762.
Windows 10: Fehler 0x800f0988/0x800f0900 bei KB4551762
An English blog post will follow (will link it internally within the blog post) later.

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[Carl]

Carl wrote:

After reading the addendum, am I correct in assuming that small businesses using SEP should be especially concerned and start looking elsewhere?

I have a feeling that unless you’re managing say 1000+ licenses, that Broadcom will throw you under the bus in the near future.

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I would be concerned, if I’m in need for SEP – and it’s a good idea to evaluate other products.

BTW: I’ve just learned that Accenture just bought the Symantec ‘Cyber Security division’ from Broadcom – I would say ‘they are playing thimbles’.

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Just some additional information and thoughts. Some comments given above are dealing with Norton products for consumers.

Please note, that there is a consumer division and a business division! The business division has been sold to Broadcom! Or in other words: Ordering licensed for Symantec Endpoint Protection etc. causes the trouble.

After I’ve published the German article within my blog and another article within a news magazin, I’ve had an interesting background talk. That move from Broadcom makes a lot of sense – and if you an Symantec customer, you should read my analysis, I’ve added to my article.

Symantec acquisition by Broadcom ends in license/support chaos Posted on 2020-03-03

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I had several confirmations that a temporary user profile has been used after login.

Windows 10: Update KB4532693 kills user data/profile

A German reader told me, that he know a case with 50 PCs – where they investigated it a little. The difference between the systems with the temporary profile and the systems that went properly: All failing machines have had Avira installed.

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Just an addendum. At Bleeping Computer a user postet a comment that blames Bitdefender Total Security 2020.

It may be that the January 14, 2020 security update for Windows 7 SP1 has changed something, that causes now conflicts with other software updates – but I’m not sure.

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Myst, Cybertooth

Cybertooth wrote:

From the post by @gborn on his website;

I have read several times (here and here), that Adobe uses a service ‘Adobe Genuine Monitor Service’ (part of the Adobe Creative Cloud) and that there was an update on February 3, 2020. A user disabled the service, rebooted and the problem was fixed. He can now shut down again via the Start menu.

So it looks like Microsoft wasn’t to blame this time after all. Instead, users can thank this “cloud” c*** that’s being pushed on us from every direction.

 

I didn’t blame Microsoft – I just noticed that there is an issue. But now I got more and more proof, that the Adobe Service from the Creative Cloud is causing the issue I’ve added an Addenum to my English article with a link, where a guy found this issue on several win 7 pcs on his company.

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