Hello,
I have a windows XP Home addition box (Bosses wife's) that became infected with the Vundo virus. I was able to remove the virus however, there is one annoying problem. I am unable to start the Automatic Update Service. When I open the services console, the AU service is disabled. I set it to automatic and apply it. I then try to start the service and receive the following error:
Error 1058: The service could not be started, either because it is disabled or it has no enabled devices associated with it.
The service then reverts back to disabled. I have confirmed that BITS is up and running normally, I can also stop and restart it with no problems.
I have attempted to delete the AU service and reinstall. I have used the following command to reinstall:
rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSectio
n DefaultInstall 132 %systemroot%\inf\au.inf
I have tried reregistering the following files:
wuapi.dll
wuaueng.dll
wuaueng1.dll
wucltui.dll
wups.dll
wuweb.dll
As a last resort, I booted to the XP CD and ran a repair, nothing has corrected the problem. I cannot begin to tell you how much I DO NOT want to wipe this computer out and start fresh. Any help you can lend would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Rich
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