> I just ran a complete virus scan and it found nothing - Spyhunter and
> Spybot found a few trojans that I deleted and fixed, but it's still
> staying disabled.

Are you 100% sure that the system has been cleaned of malware ?
Please visit a reputable anti-malware forum so you can determine if this
is the case. If malware is still resident then it will continue to
disable or interfere with the updating process in order to 'protect' itself.

Read the guidelines of the forum of your choice prior to posting there :

http://aumha.org/downloads/hijackthis.zip
http://www.aumha.org/a/hjttutor.htm - HijackThis tutorial by Merijn
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/foru...howtutorial=42 -
another tutorial
http://aumha.net/ - Click on the HijackThis forum. Read the announcement
and the stickies *first*.
http://www.atribune.org/forums/index.php?showforum=9
http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cleanup
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/...splay.php?f=25
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Malwa..._Here-f37.html
http://gladiator-antivirus.com/forum...?showforum=170
http://spywarewarrior.com/viewforum.php?f=5
http://forums.techguy.org/54-security/
http://forums.tomcoyote.org/


MowGreen [MVP 2003-2008]
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*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
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enovak7924@aol.com wrote:

> I know there are a lot of posts on this already - and I've tried all
> the suggestions on the Microsoft site -
>
> I reinstalled Windows Update, re-registered the files it says you
> shoud re-register, its enabled in my hardware profile,(which seems to
> be the common answer, but that doesn't help)
>
> Its just frustrating since it wrked fine until yesterday when I
> installed a few updates from Microsoft and McAfee had a small update
> it auto loaded. Then the trouble started.
>
> I just ran a complete virus scan and it found nothing - Spyhunter and
> Spybot found a few trojans that I deleted and fixed, but it's still
> staying disabled.
>
> I'm on a XP home edition so I have no policy editor or anything to
> check if its disabled someplace else,
>
> I'm still searching as it seems a lot of people seem to have this
> problem, but none of the common solutions I tried works.
>
> Thanks in advance if anyone can give me any pointers.