Spybot won't open..

[DaFuZzMaStA]

I have a virus or spyware that gives the error "Not a valid win32 application" when i try to open my anti virus (NOD32) or spybot, or hijackthis. I tried reinstalling spy bot, erasing the configuration file, and the cws smart killer. I've tried online virus scans all to no avail. The error is no longer there but it still won't open. If i have task manager open i can see it pop up in the list and then disapear.

Anyone know what virus this is?

[Zenobia]

You could ask for help in the malware removal forum.

The instructions are here.You probably can't do a lot of it,since you cannot run most things,but you could read through it,just as a general idea of what's what:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288

Malware removal forum:
http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22
You'll want to write in your post or your topic title that you can't run Hijackthis ,so the helpers in there can work around that.

[darren95al]

Hey,

first of all you can remove your anti-spyware and again re-install it, I got same thing when I used 'Adware Alert' anti-spyware of adwarealert.com and this is really very bad, hijack my Firefox, and affect on my PC too, thay can also not be easily removed from my system and finally I formatted my system to remove this :rolleyes: