Windows Defender encountered an error: 0x80508012.

[Guest]

During a quck scan I get the following error dialog:
Windows Defender encountered an error: 0x80508012.

Is anyone else seen this error?

Any fix?

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Is this the English or Non English version? Does this re-occur when you
re-attempt the scan? Did you try reinstalling Windows Defender to see if it
will resolve this issue? Was this an upgrade from BETA 1 of Windows
AntiSpyware, in which case it probably needed a reboot.
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[Guest]

I'm also having this problem, but it's error code 0x8050800c. But it also
happens when I trie to do a scan.
To answer to your questions:
- Its an english XP pro SP2 with all available updates
- It's an update from the previous beta 1
- I already rebooted the system and installed it again.
- user has all necessary user rights (administrator)

 

[Fuzzy John]

I got the same error on 2 machines with Win 2000 Pro SP-4. On both machines
I had Microsoft Antispyware Beta 1 uninstalled first.

On one of the machines yesterday I had the program configured to
automatically scan at noon then I went to lunch. When I returned I started
looking thru the Windows Event logs and found an entry from Windows Defender
which showed that the program started a scan which was completed 2 minutes
later. When I tried again to do manual scans on that machine I had no more
error. I rebooted and the problem on that machine did not come back.

I have yet to get feedback from the user of the second machine whether or
not he can scan now.

 

[Guest]

I just got a call from the other user and his scanning now works normally.

 

[Guest]

I have a same error when I try to scan on Win64. Icon in system tray not
appear. Update signatures was successfully. All critical update is present.
When Microsoft will release a patch?

 

[Guest]

I deleted the two remote desktop servers that Defender had flaged and then
the future scans didn't error out. This is not what I consider a good work
around.

My install was a upgrade to the previous Anti-Spyware.
OS is Win XP SP2

 

[Guest]

I deleted the two remote desktop servers that Defender had flaged and then
the future scans didn't error out. This is not what I consider a good work
around.

Hiya,

Would these happen to be VNC ? I'm also getting errors on a XP SP2 machine
and thought it may be connected to this.

Paul

 

[Guest]

Yes, one of them was VNC server. Must be a connection...

 

[Guest]

Yes, one of them was VNC server. Must be a connection...

How does one go about raising this with Microsoft ?

Paul

 

[wads24]

If you try to run a scan while Windows Defender (Beta 2) is downloading definition updates you may receive the following error "Windows Defender encountered an error: 0x80508012. An unexpected problem is preventing the program from scanning your computer for unwanted software. Try to scan your computer again." Try to run a scan again after the definitions have been updated.