Cannot start Security Center Service

[Dazed]

Running Windows XP Home, SP3 . . . and still digging out from a major
Cryptor virus infestation. Almost everything seems back to normal,
but the latest Spybot search advised that the Security Center service
was disabled. (I'm embarassed that I didn't find it myself, a major
oversight since I have no additional firewall.) When I try to enable
this service (right-click, properties, set to Automatic) and restart,
the system reboots with it set back to Disabled. Worse, the option to
Start this service is greyed out so I can't start it manually on each
reboot.

I've poked through numerous messages on this group and several on the
web; I haven't yet found one documenting this exact same problem.
What should I be doing?

Thanks for any help -

 

[ushere]

Running Windows XP Home, SP3 . . . and still digging out from a major
Cryptor virus infestation. Almost everything seems back to normal,
but the latest Spybot search advised that the Security Center service
was disabled. (I'm embarassed that I didn't find it myself, a major
oversight since I have no additional firewall.) When I try to enable
this service (right-click, properties, set to Automatic) and restart,
the system reboots with it set back to Disabled. Worse, the option to
Start this service is greyed out so I can't start it manually on each
reboot.

I've poked through numerous messages on this group and several on the
web; I haven't yet found one documenting this exact same problem.
What should I be doing?

Thanks for any help -

try malwarebytes....

 

[Dazed]

try malwarebytes....

The kep part of the "digging out from the infestation" process was running
malwarebytes anti-malware. Mbam didn't make any observation about the
unavailability of the Security Center. Neither did SuperAntiSpyware, but
then I wouldn't expect that to notice any security status problems.

In the meantime I have also tried booting into safe mode and accessing the
services list. Security Center was still disabled after a reboot . . .
anything else I should try?

Thanks -