Program won't start

[Sr. Mary Agnes]

I have used spybot search & destroy successfully for more than a year. Recently, when I double click on the icon, the program will not start. It also won't start if I make it a scheduled task through windows xp. This is happening on 2 computers. I have uninstalled and reinstalled on both computers, and it works for a day or 2, and then it won't start again. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

[md usa spybot fan]

In the past a variant of Coolwebsearch closed Spybot and some other anti-spyware programs when they started. If this is the problem, there is a removal tool that may help.

Please read the following:
Ugly new CoolWWWSearch variant
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/2004-01-21.html
That article points to a page that contains a download for:
CoolWWWSearch.SmartSearch (v1/v2) MiniRemoval (http://www.safer-networking.org/files/delcwssk.zip)
Download delcwssk.zip, extract (unzip it), and execute miniremoval_coolwebsearch_smartkiller.exe. Then see if you can get Spybot to run.

If that does not solve the problem, consider posting in the Malware Removal (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) forum and have someone take a look at your system for other malware. The posting instructions for the Malware Removal (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) forum are located here:
"BEFORE you POST" -Preliminary Steps and scanning with SPYBOT-S&D
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288

[Sr. Mary Agnes]

Thank you, I will try these things.

Sister Mary Agnes