Is malware disabling the Security Center service?

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dmcheng1

Hi. My client has an XP SP2 machien where the Security Center service
is disabled whenever the machine is rebooted. I can manually restart
the service and turn on Automatic Updates, but of course I want to fix
this problem.

I've run Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D several times and there are just two
registry keys left over from YourSiteBar and cmdService but I cannot
erase them. Do either of these two malwares disable the Security
Center? If it's something else that I can't find, then I'm gonna have
to rebuild the machine. :-( HiJackThis shows no trace of cmdService
or YourSiteBar.

(I've tried to delete the reg keys through Regedit but I was uanble to
delete them. However, I haven't checked the permissions of those keys
- I may need to reset the permissions on the reg keys.)

thanks
david
 
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