RE: invalid pointer

Interesting, John. I left mine off for three days and got the same response.
Looks like a minor bug. Works fine with a forced scan. I only hope
Microsoft read this page since there is no simple error reporting link for
Beta products that I can find.

Bill Young

"John Willison" wrote:

> I dont know who to report this to but when my machine hasnt been scanned for
> a few days I will get an alert reminding me of this and when I hit the start
> scan on the alert pop-up I encounter an error that reads -"Windows Defender
> encountered an error:0x80004003.Invalid Pointer" However if I choose to scan
> normally it works just fine.
>
> Please if someone can forward me an address to report any of these finding
> to would greatly be appreciated
>
> John

Hello Bill,

Try here for reports:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/sec...ortspyware.mspx

Attention # 7 and 10

I hope this post is helpful, let us know how it works ºut.
Еиçеl
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"Bill Young" wrote:

> Interesting, John. I left mine off for three days and got the same response.
> Looks like a minor bug. Works fine with a forced scan. I only hope
> Microsoft read this page since there is no simple error reporting link for
> Beta products that I can find.
>
> Bill Young
>
> "John Willison" wrote:
>
> > I dont know who to report this to but when my machine hasnt been scanned for
> > a few days I will get an alert reminding me of this and when I hit the start
> > scan on the alert pop-up I encounter an error that reads -"Windows Defender
> > encountered an error:0x80004003.Invalid Pointer" However if I choose to scan
> > normally it works just fine.
> >
> > Please if someone can forward me an address to report any of these finding
> > to would greatly be appreciated
> >
> > John

Microsoft does read these messages.

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"Bill Young" <BillYoung@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:21B3C2FA-3116-4EF8-B555-039325D8947D@microsoft.com...
> Interesting, John. I left mine off for three days and got the same
> response.
> Looks like a minor bug. Works fine with a forced scan. I only hope
> Microsoft read this page since there is no simple error reporting link for
> Beta products that I can find.
>
> Bill Young
>
> "John Willison" wrote:
>
>> I dont know who to report this to but when my machine hasnt been scanned
>> for
>> a few days I will get an alert reminding me of this and when I hit the
>> start
>> scan on the alert pop-up I encounter an error that reads -"Windows
>> Defender
>> encountered an error:0x80004003.Invalid Pointer" However if I choose to
>> scan
>> normally it works just fine.
>>
>> Please if someone can forward me an address to report any of these
>> finding
>> to would greatly be appreciated
>>
>> John

There's a post from Joe Faulhaber[MSFT] in another group indicating that
they now have this reproed and fixed--no word about when the fix will be
available.

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"Bill Young" <BillYoung@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:21B3C2FA-3116-4EF8-B555-039325D8947D@microsoft.com...
> Interesting, John. I left mine off for three days and got the same
> response.
> Looks like a minor bug. Works fine with a forced scan. I only hope
> Microsoft read this page since there is no simple error reporting link for
> Beta products that I can find.
>
> Bill Young
>
> "John Willison" wrote:
>
>> I dont know who to report this to but when my machine hasnt been scanned
>> for
>> a few days I will get an alert reminding me of this and when I hit the
>> start
>> scan on the alert pop-up I encounter an error that reads -"Windows
>> Defender
>> encountered an error:0x80004003.Invalid Pointer" However if I choose to
>> scan
>> normally it works just fine.
>>
>> Please if someone can forward me an address to report any of these
>> finding
>> to would greatly be appreciated
>>
>> John