Cannot delete windows 7 service

Question

I have a service called "A B C". Now I am trying to delete the service from cmd in administrator mode:

sc delete "A B C"

but that gives:

C:\>sc delete "A B C"
[SC] OpenService FAILED 1060:

The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

The service is present in the service manager and is set to automatic. How do I delete it?

http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/ht/how-to-delete-windows-service.htm

Answer 1

Since you mentioned that "is set to automatic", it could not be deleted already.

1. Make sure you have the correct service name. A service can have a service name, and a display name which is different from the former.
2. If this is a service created by a virus, it is quite possible that OpenService is hooked to keep virus alive, and ordinary method does not work in this situation. Try some anti-virus toolkits, like PsService in Sysinternals Suite or XueTr.