Ok I had a nasty virus. It has in effect gotten rid of my windows security
center. My Firewall still works, and thats all I know. The security center
services does not start, so when I check to see if its there in services.msc,
its not even listed! So now what? net start wscsrv says its not there either.
I think maybe I was joined to a domain, but I don't know how to know if I am
or how to leave. This is my personal computer and was never assigned a
domain, so I shouldn't have one now but I am not sure. Please help!

"Brent" wrote:

> Ok I had a nasty virus. It has in effect gotten rid of my windows security
> center. My Firewall still works, and thats all I know. The security center
> services does not start, so when I check to see if its there in services.msc,
> its not even listed! So now what? net start wscsrv says its not there either.
> I think maybe I was joined to a domain, but I don't know how to know if I am
> or how to leave. This is my personal computer and was never assigned a
> domain, so I shouldn't have one now but I am not sure. Please help!

My suggestion to anyone who has had a virus infection: store off any files
you want to save, reformat the hard drive, and re-install Windows. Install
and update a good antivirus program, scan the media you stored your files on,
then restore them.

Otherwise you will never know for sure that you have fixed everything, and
you you will never know if any future problems are new, or caused by things
the virus did that you didn't fix.

Good luck!

Brent wrote:
> Ok I had a nasty virus. It has in effect gotten rid of my windows
> security center. My Firewall still works, and thats all I know. The
> security center services does not start, so when I check to see if
> its there in services.msc, its not even listed! So now what? net
> start wscsrv says its not there either. I think maybe I was joined to
> a domain, but I don't know how to know if I am or how to leave. This
> is my personal computer and was never assigned a domain, so I
> shouldn't have one now but I am not sure. Please help!

It seems that WSC was out to lunch to begin with.

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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

No it was never out to lunch. A link from AIM downloaded the file web.exe.
Norton AV 2003 said "Yeah I got it, dont worry buddy" (sarcasm) but in the
end it did nothing. The virus shut down WSC and used group policy to disable
my firewall. I do not need to reformat my computer, I'm not that crazy where
my PC has to be squeaky clean. I know that the virus is gone, and I know my
firewall is back up and running. What I cannot do is run my Windows Security
Center because the service is no longer even listed for me to turn it back
on! So please, I'm not trying to be mean and I'm not angry at the last two
replies; all input is appreciated. However please help me with what I asked,
not what I ought to do.

Thank you.


"kurttrail" wrote:

> Brent wrote:
> > Ok I had a nasty virus. It has in effect gotten rid of my windows
> > security center. My Firewall still works, and thats all I know. The
> > security center services does not start, so when I check to see if
> > its there in services.msc, its not even listed! So now what? net
> > start wscsrv says its not there either. I think maybe I was joined to
> > a domain, but I don't know how to know if I am or how to leave. This
> > is my personal computer and was never assigned a domain, so I
> > shouldn't have one now but I am not sure. Please help!
>
> It seems that WSC was out to lunch to begin with.
>
> --
> Peace!
> Kurt
> Self-anointed Moderator
> microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
> http://microscum.com/mscommunity
> "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
> "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
>
>
>