Re-check the box and Save Changes again. Security Essentials should turn green again and the Windows red warning should go away. I hope this helps. So far. Thanks for this helpful information. After digesting it all, I came to the conclusion that for my PC …. I had not run a full scan for a while, and only allowed a quick scan, due to user impatience! Therefor a full normal scan was in need to rectify the problem of the status of MSE being in potentially unprotected mode. I hope this also helps somebody else.
At a minimum, it takes days to scan and also hangs up where it makes no progress at all. Any ideas? A full scan simply should not take days.
Dear Leo thank you very much. Funny thing too, my auto-updates are working again. Wonder if that had anything to do with it? Thanks again til the next time, Ken. My theory: Same as Ken B. When you are starting up Windows, the message comes up before the antivirus program has had a chance to load. By the time I get to look at their computer, their AV is up and running.
Most of the times my MSE updates but forgets to scan. In my version of CCleaner [ ver. Is there anything else I have to uncheck in CCleaner to ensure that Scans are done regularly. This just happened about 3 days ago before that it was fine.
Not being that computer savvy, how would I go about fixing it as this is now the 4th morning this has happened. It depends on the specific wording of the error message. Without the d I can understand. This feels like a connectivity problem — like MSE is unable to connect to the services it needs. Leo, I just want to thank you for all the information that you gave me and apologize for being a pest and to thank you for being so patient with me. Very helpfull advice I have the amber potentially unprotected all the time?
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