Help! Spybot will not open.

[lstensland]

I've downloaded and setup the program (following the prompts) and chose "run Spybot" but the program doesn't do anything. I've also tried to run it from the icon on the toolbar, and no luck. What's wrong?

[drragostea]

Try renaming your Spybot Desktop icon to something else. The one you have will be "Spybot - Search & Destroy", so rename it to "Spybot-SD".
Please report back on how it goes.

[marianne]

Hi! I have the same problem!! I've change the name of the shortcut on my desktop and it change nothing!!

I also tried to open it with the run command (DOS) but nothing appen...HELP!!

[jonathan1024]

I have the same problem. I got infected with something, tried to run Spybot and nothing happend. It used to work. I updated to the most recent 1.6.0 today and still nothing happens. I tried renaming the shortcut but that didn't work either.

[jonathan1024]

I just noticed that the shortcut on my desktop points to "C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\SpybotSD.exe" but SpybotSD.exe does not exist there. I searched my entire computer for it but found nothing! A problem with the install package??????

[marianne]

I was infected by brastk.exe and I've destroy it!! Now I can run Spybot :D

You're shurely infect with this virus, just go to c:\windows\system32\drivers and delete the file named : beep.sys
After that, go to c:\windows\system32 and delete brastk.exe and kana.dat

you reboot and no more white and red big X!! Hourrah

Edit: For members with infected computers.
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