Windows cannot start the security centre service

[Rmalik]

I am unable to start the security centre service. It gives me an error message:
Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.
I suspect some malware as it has disabled all services. Now I am not able to connect with Internet and do the scan. Please help

 

[A Guy]

Welcome to Seven Forums Rmalik. This does have all the earmarks of an infection. You might see if you can put Windows Defender Off line on a USB or CD using a friends PC, and run a scan with it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/166445-windows-defender-offline.html

The following dependencies are required for the Security Center Service:



All should be set to Automatic and Started.

But you need to scan as there is something that has affected services.

A Guy

 

[shawn77]

You're infected by zero access

 

[Borg 386]

You might want to add TDSSKiller to the list of tools to scan with. Although it's can't fix everything, it is one of the better rootkit scanners out there now & scans for hidden partitions, usually created by rootkits.

Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller