Windows 10: "Virus & threat protection has stopped". Unable to start. Windows 10

Just powered up and got this alert:





When I hit "Restart now" I got this





What should I do please?

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virus and threat protection

Virus and threat protection has stopped and will not restart, Windows 10 ver 1709, antimalware client ver 4.12.16299.15 . SuperAntiSpyware installed.

I have tried most of the suggestions from the support pages, all have been ineffective. Any suggestions

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virus and threat protection

Thank you Le Boule for your suggestions, my confusion over this problem is that, I run Windows 10 ver 1709 on my PC and laptop, which both running Windows Defender and SuperAntiSpyware, Windows Defender works with all the bells on the laptop but not on
the PC. So how will removing SuperAntiSpyware do the trick? I realise that the environment on the two computers could vary enormously, and as I am not an expert and don't want to tinker, having learned from bad experiences in the past. Maybe I didn't make
myself totally clear and I appologise, Windows Defender is turned on and the only component without a green tick, is the Virus and Threat protection component, the service is turned on and on automatic. I have stopped and restarted the service, but the component
will not restart, all I get is an error message. If Microsoft wants to bring all these applications under one umbrella, then surely they should provide a fixit tool (tools) for when a vital application such as Defender runs into problems.

I will try your suggestion of removing the third party virus protection, and hope that is successful. Thank you again.