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Sometimes it becomes necessary to manually remove a service from a machine.
As an example I recently had a machine that had been infected by a trojan with the file msihost.exe that had been caught by the antivirus software but not before it had installed itself as a service on the computer. In the service manager was the entry for the service but as there was no longer any executable associated with it, it showed as disabled and it made sense to remove it.
first get the service name from the services applet in the control panel. In this case it was "Windows MSI"
Next open a command prompt using CMD
Type sc delete "Windows MSI"
Press Enter and then reboot the computer to completely remove the service.
Note: The quotes are only needed if there is a space in the service name.
If the isn't sc delete MyService works as well.
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26 August 2009 IB
Windows XP
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