Solved The Windows Security Center service can't be started.

[keyboardface]

That's good! Don't download cracks, they come with unsuspected malwareware, such as, viruses, Trojans, password stealers, rootkits, etc.

If you really want a program, buy it or look for free opensource alternatives Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com

Now flush the bad DNS cache and restore MS's Hosts file

Copy and paste these lines in Note pad.
@Echo on
pushd\windows\system32\drivers\etc
attrib -h -s -r hosts
echo 127.0.0.1 localhost>HOSTS
attrib +r +h +s hosts
popd
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /flushdns
netsh int ip reset all
shutdown -r -t 1
del %0
Save as flush.bat to your desktop. Right click to run as Administrator. Your computer will reboot itself.

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So I don't know whether it was the removal of that Adobe Audition keygen or the little bat file you created there, but it appears to have done the trick!

The security center is running fine again now and doesn't turn itself off anymore. Firefox seems to be stable again too. Problem solved. Thanks a lot for your help.

 

[Hopalong X]

roastbeef

Pros all around. Especially Jacee.

I knew if it was fixable she could get it.

Mike

 

[Anak]

Two items I noticed in your HJT log that send a chill up my spine are:

BHO: URLRedirectionBHO - {B4F3A835-0E21-4959-BA22-42B3008E02FF} - C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~2\Office14\URLREDIR.DLLFilter hijack: text/xml - {807573E5-5146-11D5-A672-00B0D022E945} - C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\MSOXMLMF.DLL

@Anak Look up both CLSIDS using SystemLookup - An online database of what's good and bad on your computer

This is what I found for the first one System Lookup1 And the second SystemLookup2 They both look to be okay.
{B4F3A835-0E21-4959-BA22-42B3008E02FF} {807573E5-5146-11D5-A672-00B0D022E945}

I can stop shivering now. Thank you for the lesson, and the link Jacee!

 

[Jacee]

Most welcome!

btw .... http://www.systemlookup.com/lists.php?list=4&type=filename&search=MSOXMLMF.DLL&s=

 

[Borg 386]

Glad you got it sorted...but like I said in the earlier post, anytime you see a statement saying "The keygen will show up as a false positive, just ignore it", that's the time to be especially wary. In most cases, this is just an attempt to get you to push the ignore button on your AV. Avoid them in the future.

@Borg 386 ... HJT is getting 'long in the tooth' and can't read the lists of O23's (services) on a 64bit computer properly. That's why we use other tools.

@Jacee - I saw that in a article, but it was dated 2009, I would have assumed they had upgraded it by now. They still haven't done that???? Yeah, it is 'getting long in the tooth'....Thanx for the link to osalt.com, now if I could only find something to compete with CS4/CS5 I need for one of my classes...

 

[woodfin]

Hey, I know this thread has not been touched in a while, but I was looking to try and solve the same issue I'm having with my laptop, I can turn on windows security service centre with the instrcutions to run it from the start menu, however once I put it to automatic and start, it begins then turns off after 20 odd seconds.
I followed the instructions that Jacee gave with the ESET scanner and it quarantined these files:


C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\Temp\svchost.exe a variant of Win32/Injector.DWK trojan cleaned by deleting - quarantined
C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\lsass.exe a variant of Win32/Injector.DWK trojan cleaned by deleting - quarantined
C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\sfvkaf.exe a variant of Win32/Injector.IGX trojan cleaned by deleting - quarantined

its giving me the option to delete the files but even with my limited experience they look quite important. I was able to follow everything up the flush bad DNS part, I'm not really sure what it means. what should be my next step? I'm very much a novice here, please be gentle...

 

[Anak]

Hi woodfin, welcome to 7F

its giving me the option to delete the files but even with my limited experience they look quite important. I was able to follow everything up the flush bad DNS part, I'm not really sure what it means. what should be my next step? I'm very much a novice here, please be gentle...

You might receive a better response if you started a new thread in System Security, and pointed a link back to this thread.
http://www.systemlookup.com/search.php?type=filename&search=lsass.exe&s=
Just off hand none of those ESET quarantined files look very appealing, if you were following Jacee's advice in her post #18

I was able to follow everything up the flush bad DNS part

that batch file may or may not help.

That is why you should make your own thread.

 

[woodfin]

Hi Anak, many thanks for the response and advice,
I'll get on a new thread