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04-Jan-2008, 01:11 AM #1
Question Services Disabled (services.msc) Kill Me Now...
I am super anal retentive about security; however, this one has me stumped. As I wade through this bucket of doody I stepped in, and prior to a wipe (which is OK) my persistent arse wonders WTH happened -- and how to fix this.

Symptoms: Several critical services are disabled...System Restore, Anti-Virus, Security Center, Themes, Universal Plug and Play, Windows Firewall/ICS, SMTP, Workstation, etc..

The many tools I've used return a clean system. This is one I don't see a fix for; it's making me crazy.

I suspect this is a startup script that has a hook in my reg. Services are disabled upon boot (soft or hard); same at hibernate - BUT limited at hibernate.

Does anyone have any suggestions or advice?

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06-Jan-2008, 06:31 PM #2
In msconfig, you can disable services, can you check there to see if your services are checkmarked?
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09-Jan-2008, 08:30 PM #3
Thank you for your reply. I've been having to manually touch the services, and restart them. It's very strange.
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Log File
Take a look at the attachment; I suspect line #99 is the offender but this is all I seem to be able to view from the export. In the actual services (local), nothing is viewed between #98 & #100 - Windows Time and Wireless Zero Config.
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12-Jan-2008, 12:34 AM #5
If you haven't already: download Spybot Search&Destroy. There is spyware that disables services so it can do its thing.
The services you mentioned aren't critical though, except firewall and virus guard which are extremely critical
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