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Can anyone help please?? its broken!

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  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
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    Im a little lost as to where you are POWER girl :p
    Are you now running the malwarebytes scan?
    :idea:
  • GIRLPOWER_2
    GIRLPOWER_2 Posts: 1,382 Forumite
    I have restarted as suggested and it took me back into the normal nothing working mode so I switch off at the mains and after 4 attempts it allowed me back into safemode.

    I clicked on the malware icon on the safemode desktop and nothing happened.

    so I have tried to install it again via your link and it is now on the finishing installation part of set up.

    Cheers

    Nikki
  • GIRLPOWER_2
    GIRLPOWER_2 Posts: 1,382 Forumite
    aliEnRIK wrote: »
    Im a little lost as to where you are POWER girl

    Ok I will give you men are good at a few things like computers and cars and.........leave that one with me! :p

    Only joking please help!!!!
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    If you cant get it working, it could well be the infection is stopping it working
    if so ~
    Try manually changing the name of the .exe file (anything at all, it seems some viruses know which exes to block!)eg powergirl.exe
    If THAT doesnt work
    Download firefox in safe mode
    http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
    Use that for all net installations till we're sorted
    Try with that in normal then safe mode should it fail
    Try to get superantispyware working if you cant get malwarebytes working (Changing the .exe name too)
    :idea:
  • GIRLPOWER_2
    GIRLPOWER_2 Posts: 1,382 Forumite
    Right this time when ending the installation it asked if i wanted to scan and I ticked yes and then pressed finish as requested.

    Nothing happened. The set up box disappeared (But is still showing on the menu bar)

    When I click on the icon nothing. When I click start then the icon...nothing.

    Edit... set up now disappeared from menu bar.. still nothing when u click on icons
  • Browntoa
    Browntoa Posts: 49,620 Forumite
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    you need to run malwarebytes in normal mode , otherwise not all the infected files are loaded and will not be removed

    boot into normal mode ,then do the following

    Click on the START button,

    so you get this screen

    67432-click-my-computer.gif

    and click on my computer , which will take you to a screen like

    myComputer.jpg
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  • Browntoa
    Browntoa Posts: 49,620 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    click on the icon that says Local Disk ( c: )

    and it should give you a list of all the folders on the C:

    look down the list for Program Files and double click on it

    look down the list for the folder Malwarebytes Anti Malware and double click on it

    look for a file called MBAM , which looks like this

    post-1-1205697861.png

    highlight it and Right Click with your mouse and choose rename , change the file name to cleanup

    then double click on the file now named Cleanup and it should run
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  • GIRLPOWER_2
    GIRLPOWER_2 Posts: 1,382 Forumite
    How do I change its name?

    Right click on my mouse not workin.
  • GIRLPOWER_2
    GIRLPOWER_2 Posts: 1,382 Forumite
    in normal mode nothing works.

    I get an egg timer straight away.
  • bluboy
    bluboy Posts: 336 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Try left click once to select it then press F2 to rename
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