Microsoft Security Essentials: Machine state - potentially unprotected

Microsoft Security Essentials: When I try to update virus and spyware difinitions it seems to work but still reads "your computer does not have the latest updates on potential threats, which could endanger.

I tried to update several times in recent days and while it does not give me the error messages he always says the Virus and spyware definitions status is "stale" and the following message appears:

Definitions of created the: 23/10/2011 at 07:44
Definitions of last checked: 23/10/2011 at 11:44
Virus definition version: 1.115.358.0
Spyware definition version: 1.115.358.0

I tried to download and manually install updates also but still no luck.  Any ideas?

See that the response by The ball marked as answer in the following thread:

http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/protect/Forum/protect_scanning/Amber-Alert-and-update/c107bf23-A523-47a3-8E3E-d94429ff3635

I hope this helps.

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