control panel does not recognize MSE has been reinstalled

I had a virus last week that disabled my firewall and MSE. I ran a malware anti virus and believe I removed the virus but after that my firewall icon in control panel was not available and the security center icon says that MSE is turned off. I uninstalled/reinstalled

MSE and got the green icon in the lower rt of the screen but the virus and spyware update said Connection failed 80070424. I found a way to fix that and now from the green icon MSE says it is working and everything is up to date. I also found another place

to get the firewall back on but if you go to the security center icon in the control panel it still says MSE is turned off like it does not see the program is running. How can I get one side to know what the other is doing? I believe MSE is running right and

have received some auto updates again but control panel security center says no. Am I protected?

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