I am experiencing about a 10 minute delay after my PC boots up and the desktop appears before the internet gets connected. Once connected, everything appears to run OK.
An anti-virus scan quaranteened the TR/Trash.gen Trojan, but I’m not sure if that has anything to do with the problem. Spyware and malware scans have been done with no detected problems.
Interesting that I can do a ping during the delay time.
The System section of the Event Viewer shows a few errors which I think may be part of the problem:
- At 4:21:48 PM Service Control Manager Event 7000 (The Security Services Driver (x86) service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.)
- At 4:24:12 PM Service Control Manager Event 7022 (The Fax service hung on starting.)
- At 4:38:09 PM Service Control Manager Event 7022 (The Server service hung on starting.)
- At 4:38:09 PM Service Control Manager Event 7001 (The Computer Browser service depends on the Server service which failed to start because of the following error:
After starting, the service hung in a start-pending state.)

Could it be that the Trojan trashed the missing file identified in the Event 7000 error? Any way to find out what file is missing?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Running XP SP3