Virus killed security centre - xp.

Jimbo · 22 Feb 2007 at 23:23

A freind had a virus/trojan kill security centre on windows xp, so he did a reinstall and its still disabled.

He cant find anything in the registry, whats the solution to this? could it have disabled a service or something?

bledd · 22 Feb 2007 at 23:38

what did he reinstall?

disable system restore
install nod32 trial, do a full scan
use dial-a-fix and do the repairs, then go into the tools option and see if there's a security centre repair option

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4899.html

Jimbo · 22 Feb 2007 at 23:42

Cheers for that mate.

He re installed windows, but security centre is still disabled. I was wondering if its effected services? isnt that where security centre is?

Minstadave · 23 Feb 2007 at 01:50

If you go RUN-->services.msc its listed there, and you can set it to manual to have it start with windows.

Make sure he's updated to SP2, as security centre wasn't around before then.

tomos · 23 Feb 2007 at 02:27

did he do a proper reinstall? or did he do a "well it's good enough" reinstall? meaning installing windows on top of itself?

if he'd formatted, (barring the virus residing on another drive/partition) then it's extremely unlikely it would still be there now

bledd · 23 Feb 2007 at 02:40

tomos said:
did he do a proper reinstall? or did he do a "well it's good enough" reinstall? meaning installing windows on top of itself?

if he'd formatted, (barring the virus residing on another drive/partition) then it's extremely unlikely it would still be there now

yeah was going to say that

def a good idea to remove current partition then format it to install again, otherwise you get a 'dirty' install

Jimbo · 23 Feb 2007 at 11:30

Thanks for the help guys.

Yes he did a lazy reinstall ie over the top of the old windows. I new something about checking services as Minstadave kindly suggests. I told him he might be looking at a reformat.

Not sure if he has sp2 but im asuming so. :confused: