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[woops]

I have just been infected by 'antivirus 2009' malware. I previously had mbam loaded. Now it will not start. I have re-downloaded it, renamed the .exe file and tried running the second copy, but it will not start either. Help!

[woops]

woops, on May 9 2009, 06:46 PM, said:

I have just been infected by 'antivirus 2009' malware. I previously had mbam loaded. Now it will not start. I have re-downloaded it, renamed the .exe file and tried running the second copy, but it will not start either. Help!

NEVER MIND - I found the fix was to rename the mbam.exe to mbam.bat and restart the program. This allowed mbam to start and do its scan, cleaned up computer, all is well again.

[Pauly]

woops, on May 10 2009, 12:54 AM, said:

NEVER MIND - I found the fix was to rename the mbam.exe to mbam.bat and restart the program. This allowed mbam to start and do its scan, cleaned up computer, all is well again.

I am struggling with some kind of virus that manifests with a "Google Installer failure" message all the time and general slowness/crashing of computer. Have downloaded Malwarebytes but can get it to start - probably the virus stopping it. Above seems like something I should try, however, not that IT literate - how do I convert .exe file to .bat file if I am on Windows XP? Stupid question I'm sure.

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