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interesting thread… Its no wonder those people are having issues since they are using windows xp which is extremely vulnerable, almost to the point its obsolete and unusable for most. In fact i have seen the same exact issue on an xp machine. Yes its one of the machines that eventually died in my house I believe due to a virus. What those people are describing was one of the symptoms imo. I’ve seen that exact issue on xp though, the MSE update hanging the pc and taking forever which should not happen at all. Unlike windows 7, you can not identify all the process use when this occurs, it is unknown what is eating up the cpu resources when this happens because there is no way to identify it, even with process explorer from sys internals I believe.
Here is the thread I have started on that site regarding my particular issue: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/mse-protect_updating/is-this-link-safe-and-related-to-mse/b9dc6281-af61-41de-a9b5-2d38ec1c9f2c
I myself feel I may have to abandon using pc’s in the future. Its just not worth the cost anymore with alternatives that are just as good and cheaper, like phones, game consoles and cheap netbooks. so many viruses and malicious hackers out there its just not worth it anymore. I don blame the ipad and phones. I blame viruses and hackers, They are what is actually killing the industry and stalling our evolution and stifling our individual potential for true computing power. Its depressing.