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laptop slower since MSE found a potential threat (and didn't deal??)
Last night I ran a Microsoft Security Essentials full scan on my laptop. It found something it called potentially dangerous software. (I didn’t write down what it found, but remember the words Trojan and win.) I pressed the button to clear it and that process started but stalled about three quarters of the way through. I waited for a good hour but it didn’t get past that stalled point so I downloaded and ran the free Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - it didn’t find anything in its scan. I then ran an MSE quick scan and it didn’t find anything then either (I didn’t have enough time to do another full scan, which had taken a few hours).
Since this happened my laptop is markedly slower to start up. It takes a couple of minutes for the desktop items to appear and it never used to. Once everything does actually come up it seems to work the same as usual.
I’m running another MSE full scan this morning but it will take a few hours, so I thought I’d post here now in case there’s some things I should be doing instead/in the meantime.
A couple of times during the MSE second, quick scan last night, and today’s scan, I’ve noticed a little MSE box come up (for only a couple of seconds) with a green tick saying detected threats are being cleaned.
Thanks in anticipation :)