[jackgreat]

Hello Everyone,

Recently my laptop (OS: Windows XP SP2) was infected with viruses/worms. In particular the exe file smss.exe and killer.exe used to execute.

One possible issue was there was not anti-virus and security center wasnt running.

I installed Avg 8 and it did clean up the system. But there is still a problem.

When I click on security center in control panel , it says security center is unavailable because security center service has not been run. Please restart windows or run the service.

When I goto services I do not see security center in the list. Now how do I fix this problem. Though windows updates and firewall is on but why cant I see & start security center.

Help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
JG

[blues_harp28]

Hi check.
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ws-XP-SP2.html

It is a registry file..so backup your registry first.

[jackgreat]

Thanks a lot , the problem has been fixed.