Spybot Startup

[RQAYOOM]

I think I may have a virus. It has disabled Spybot from starting up. I have tried disabling startup items through Msconfig, I have also ran hijackthis and deleted some toolbars and things from internet Explorer. Loud music and ads play when I start up my PC through Iexplorer which stop when I close iexplorer through ctrl+alt_del. Can't run spybot in Safe Mode either.

I am now going to try Lavasoft Ad-Aware although I have always prefered Spybot and been able to use it without problems. I don't have a firewall or anything which may be blocking it.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[Matt]

HI RQAYOOM,

it seems that Malware blocks Spybot from running.

Try to open Spybot in a different way, like you can see here (http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=294582&postcount=3).

Moreover, you can rename Spybot's file SpybotSD.exe into RQAYOOM.exe.

Let us know if this helps.