windows defender beta

[Guest]

encountered this message when i try to scan my system:

error: 80004003 INVALID POINTER

 

[Guest]

I'd recommend doing a new download and installing over your current version

 

[Guest]

Disregard the previuos post.

Try going to Windows Update and applying all offered critical updates.
http://update.microsoft.com

Just go to Scan menu, select Custom scan, select some folders and do
scanning on them. The error should disappear.

 

[Guest]

Just responding to Engel's post as it relates to a problem I have.

I don't think the custom scan works, at least for me. No matter what folder
I check to scan, the program decides to check a lot of other things.

I check c:\windows\system32 as the only folder to scan. In watching the
GUI, I'm watching it scan that folder, then it changes all over the place to
places like:

c:\program files\...
c:\documents and settings\...
Various registry keys are also scanned (Now that I think about it, this
strikes me as odd since there's no option to check for anything in the
registry. Does it scan the registry when it wants to?)

 

[Guest]

Hello mcdonamw,

The scan works backwards from memory content and startup items, and is
intended to catch 100% of active in-place spywªre.

 

[Guest]

I don't think this is such a case at least for me. My scan went for well
over a half an hour and it scanned approximately 300+ thousand files before I
stopped it. There's not that many files in the c:\windows\system32
directory. I only have 8,563 files in this directory.

By the time I chose to cancel the scan it was scanning c:\program
files\microsoft sql server\*. Kind of odd when I told it to only scan
c:\windows\system32, no?

 

[Guest]

Thank goodness. I was worried that one of the Pointer Sisters had a terrible
accident. ;-)