Windows 10 Threat service stops when I attempt to check for virus definition updates

[JoshuaStrickling]

When I go to "Settings -> "Virus & threat protection" -> "Virus & threat protection updates" -> "Check for updates" and then click on the "Check for updates" button, sometimes after attempting for a moment to find any new updates, it simply stops and then says that "Windows threat service has stopped." I click the restart button and wait a bit and everything gets back to normal, but it takes an annoyingly long time to restart. This issue has been occurring for several months but is very inconsistent. Most times I try to manually start the update process like this, everything w

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