Hi,
by choosing wrong at a firewall question I got infected with a worm that deleted the Automatic Updates service and inhabilitated the OS to update itself - I got errors when launching Microsoft Update.
Now the PC is clean again thanks to avast! but I still cannot update Windows. The little shYt that do this is named
Win32:SdBot-5449 [trj].
Is there any way to restore Windows Update functionality? I'm just finishing setting up a clean fresh install when got infected... And I want to raise a loud voice here: how much efficient is a firewall if with a *single* mistake I throw everything to the trashbin? There's a big security hole in the current firewall build/use model.
I found a very useful page regarding this issue at CastleCops but there says nothing about restoring the service to to the Management Console...
link:
http://www.castlecops.com/t106642-How_To_Fix_Windows_Update_BITS_Newly_Edited..html