If you have multiple antivirus programs on your computer, that's a problem 
in itself and usually ms security essentials will be disabled. Also, when do 
you get this message? IF it's at start up or while installing updates, that 
happens and once it's done booting up and what not it will run the program 
fine on it's own, if in the middle of just every day use,there's something 
going on. Ms security essentials will update when you get windows updates so 
you don't need to manually update it, if the system tray thing says the 
computer may not be protected, it's time to do a scan. If it's still running 
slow after all those scans, I have to wonder a couple things. 1, have you 
done a defrag on the drive? Also, how long have you run the system since a 
complete reformat and reinstall? After a while, there's just so much stuff 
that builds up, fragments of old programs and what not, even though some say 
with newer systems you don't have that problem but any heavily used system I 
find will eventually be so weighed down with stuff after a few years it will 
need to be reformatted and started from scratch. If there is a trogen or 
something on there and no program is finding it, same thing.
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From: "jason" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Fw: [BlindTech] Sluggishness and Microsoft Security 
Essentials ServiceStopped


> Hello there you probably have to install updates for essentials. every
> week they issue new virus definitions for the program you have to go to
> the system tray find where it says pc status unprotected or protected in
> your system tray that is the essentials program telling you if your
> computer is protected or unprotected.  anyway when you find what the
> status of your computer is just hit enter on that  and then a context
> menu should come up asking you to open so just hit enter then it will
> open the program shift tab several times until you here the tab called
> home then right arrow to the update tab tagb to update update button and
> hit enter on that  and your essentials should start to update.  Then
> after your install the update go back to the system tray look for the
> status pc protected or unprotected again and when you find it just hit
> enter and a  context emnu will appear asking you to open the program so
> hit enter on open and then tab to check full scan and then scan button.
> however when you run the full scan make sure you don't have anything to
> do on the computer because it make take and hour to several hours to
> scan your system.  Also essentials tells you not to have other virus and
> spy wear programs running because essentials is a virus and spy wear
> program.  Anyway just hit insert b to read your dialog box to check the
> progress of your scan hopefully this helps you,either disable those
> other programs you have running for spy wear and viruses then your
> computer should run smoothly, because if essentials detects a threat it
> will ask to you to remove the threat and then once the threat is removed
> you can restart the computer and everything should be well with your
> machine, however if you do have a trojan on your computer I hope it's
> not embedded deeply into your system because if it is the only way to
> get rid of it is to reformat your entire hard drive.  if you have to
> reformat your system back up all the contents you need onto another
> drive so you can put it back on your computer once it has been
> reformatted. However also scan your programs and materials that you back
> up to make sure they aren't infected I hope this information helps you.
>