Microsoft have this to say
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=266668
And this from a newsgroup post :
Message 5 in thread
From: Amanda Purkess ((E-Mail Removed))
Subject: Re: I get cl&ose in add/remove programs & network
configuation is missing NICs
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Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.advanced_server
Date: 2003-12-03 02:54:09 PST
For anyone out there who comes accross this thread, I had
exactly the
same problem with a friends Win2000 laptop and it
transpired to be the
goabot virus. Emergency virus scans in DOS failed to
pick it up. I
identified it manually when I spotted a process called
service5.exe
running.
Please see this URL for more details of how to identify it
as it can
use several different names for the process.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven...32.hllw.gaobot.
af.html
Once I deleted the references to service5.exe from the
registry,
deleted the file from c:\winnt\system32 and rebooted, the
laptop was
fine and everything returned to normal.
>-----Original Message-----
>Anyone ever seen Cl&ose in Add\Remove Programs.
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