Virus killed security centre - xp.

[Jimbo]

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?

 

[Jimbo]

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?

 

[Jimbo]

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.