the specified service does not exist as an installed service

[JRDtechnet]

This is breaking my hump here. Computer came in normal mode nothing works, everything comes up with "the specified service does not exists as an installed service" I removed the user variant zeroaccess infection but I can't seem to repair windows I've ran D7 in safe mode repaired permissions and default services (won't run in regular mode...get that error), nor with regedit, combofix, etc run in normal mode. It seems like anything that requires a program in the system32 folder won't run. In safe mode malwarebytes, combofix, tdsskiller all come up clean so I'm pretty sure the infection is gone just a matter of fixing it. Any ideas? Even attempting to do a in-place upgrade as a repair fails with that error message.

 

[datagnostic]

Have you done a system file integrity check?

SFC.exe /scannow

 

[JRDtechnet]

Have you done a system file integrity check?

SFC.exe /scannow

Yeah of course, twice.

 

[commodore64]

maybe try a boot disk scanner like kaspersky rescue disk, or slave the drive to another computer and run scans from there on the drive. I know I've seen scanners like combofix and malwarebytes that will only remove some infections when not scanning in safe mode. Another idea, and maybe a stretch, but I had one like this a long time ago, that after the virus removal, we got errors like this, ended up having to run chkdsk and then all was well. May not have been related to the virus, but it did work.

 

[JRDtechnet]

Ended up doing a backup and N&P. Searching the error with virus mcafee seems to be a common denominator, maybe something on how mcafee attempts to deal with it that fubars the system??

See
http://forums.whatthetech.com/index.php?showtopic=123515

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=111377

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=110246

 

[schwags]

I have been having this a lot lately, and I found that updating the Intel Matrix storage manager seemed to fix most of them. Of course you have to remoev any viruses first, but it seems to be doing the trick in regards to this error when trying to update windows.