gearsec.exe is a process relating to Gear CD/DVD Burning Software, and has controls which deal with security. "This program is a non-essential process, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems. "
Non-system processes like gearsec.exe originate from software you installed on your system. Since most applications store data in your system's registry, it is likely that your registry has suffered fragmentation and accumulated invalid entries which can affect your PC's performance. It is recommended that you
check your registry to identify slowdown issues.