Virus - Turned off essential services

JamesU2005 · 20 Sep 2014 at 12:12

Hi all,

Just removed a few viruses and Trojans from a computer and discovered the Virus/Trojan had turned off a load of Microsoft essentials services like Windows Security Center, Windows Firewall, Windows Update, Windows Restore etc.

Is there a way of reverting these changes quickly? Rather than having to find everything the Virus has changed?

Thanks,

Akagi · 20 Sep 2014 at 12:19

What operating system is it? A system restore should sort out most problems.

JamesU2005 · 20 Sep 2014 at 12:23

Windows 7.

Restore was turned off by the virus it seems and no backup available when I start it!

Akagi · 20 Sep 2014 at 12:26

Is there any reason why a data backup and then a fresh Windows install would be particularly inconvenient? If not then I would be inclined to just do that.

bledd · 20 Sep 2014 at 12:35

Here you go

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/set_windows_services_to_default_startup.html

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They also make this, which is a bit of a shotgun blast fix-all..

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows_repair_all_in_one.html

I do hold my breath if I choose to run it, typically on a trashed PC that I don't want to waste time on.

JamesU2005 · 20 Sep 2014 at 12:36

Just helping a friend out and don't have all the neccesary install discs.

I'm running the System File Checker a few times to see if anything has been corrupted.

Any other such things I should do?

JamesU2005 · 20 Sep 2014 at 12:41

bledd. said:
Here you go

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/set_windows_services_to_default_startup.html

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They also make this, which is a bit of a shotgun blast fix-all..

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows_repair_all_in_one.html

I do hold my breath if I choose to run it, typically on a trashed PC that I don't want to waste time on.

Thanks Bledd! This could be the one I need :-)

Why do you hold you breath on the software contained on the second link?

bledd · 20 Sep 2014 at 12:43

If you look at the list of fixes, it processes a ton of things. It should be fine, but it's a 3rd party tool registering DLL's and changing reg keys.

It's possible that a Windows Update conflict with the changes they make.

Not had any troubles with it, but I prefer to err on the side of caution.

JamesU2005 · 20 Sep 2014 at 19:15

Thanks Bledd, this seems to have done the thing :-)