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April 14th 09, 11:35 AM
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Cannot start Security Center Service
Running Windows XP Home, SP3 . . . and still digging out from a major
Cryptor virus infestation. Almost everything seems back to normal, but the latest Spybot search advised that the Security Center service was disabled. (I'm embarassed that I didn't find it myself, a major oversight since I have no additional firewall.) When I try to enable this service (right-click, properties, set to Automatic) and restart, the system reboots with it set back to Disabled. Worse, the option to Start this service is greyed out so I can't start it manually on each reboot. I've poked through numerous messages on this group and several on the web; I haven't yet found one documenting this exact same problem. What should I be doing? Thanks for any help - 
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April 14th 09, 12:02 PM
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Cannot start Security Center Service
Dazed wrote:
Running Windows XP Home, SP3 . . . and still digging out from a major Cryptor virus infestation. Almost everything seems back to normal, but the latest Spybot search advised that the Security Center service was disabled. (I'm embarassed that I didn't find it myself, a major oversight since I have no additional firewall.) When I try to enable this service (right-click, properties, set to Automatic) and restart, the system reboots with it set back to Disabled. Worse, the option to Start this service is greyed out so I can't start it manually on each reboot. I've poked through numerous messages on this group and several on the web; I haven't yet found one documenting this exact same problem. What should I be doing? Thanks for any help - try malwarebytes....
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April 14th 09, 01:41 PM
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Cannot start Security Center Service
"ushere" wrote:
try malwarebytes.... The kep part of the "digging out from the infestation" process was running malwarebytes anti-malware. Mbam didn't make any observation about the unavailability of the Security Center. Neither did SuperAntiSpyware, but then I wouldn't expect that to notice any security status problems. In the meantime I have also tried booting into safe mode and accessing the services list. Security Center was still disabled after a reboot . . . anything else I should try? Thanks -
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