Did you recently install Microsoft Security Essentials to protect your computer, and right after installing it, your computer slowed to a crawl? Well, the good news is, you’re not going crazy. It is completely possible for this to happen.

Why? Because for some reason, Microsoft made it so that if you are running MSE on Windows XP, MSE only needs 256MB of RAM to run. BUT (and that’s a BIG BUT!), if you’re running Windows Vista or Windows 7, then MSE requires a whopping 1GB of RAM! That’s how much RAM a lot of people have in their whole system, which means there would not be any RAM left to run the OS, never mind run any additional programs.

Windows 7 alone needs 1GB of RAM to run. So if you have WSE installed or want to have it installed, then you need at least 2GB of RAM just to run WSE and Windows 7!

Since that’s the case, if you’re running Windows 7 or Windows Vista, make sure you have at least 3GB of RAM, preferably 4GB, if you want to have MSE as your security suite.

Just a little FYI for ya!

Here’s the page you want to go to to confirm the system requirements for MSE:
System requirements for Microsoft Security Essentials

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I just had a client who was infected by this nasty spyware. No, it was not a virus. It was spyware acting like an antivirus program.

First and foremost, never…

There is a malware out there that makes itself look like it’s the XP Security Center, but it’s not. It’s malware and will tell you that your computer is infected with a virus. The real XP Security Center will never tell you that your computer is infected with a virus because it is not an anti-virus program. It only monitor’s your security software, which includes your anti-virus program.

In any case, the way to remove it is by downloading Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware.

Here are the instructions:

Here are some simple things that you can do to avoid getting a virus on your computer: