Monday, March 8, 2010

AV2010 has gotten worse!

It was preventing me from installing Malwarebytes, and everytime I would run any program the virus would be started. I had to use the following registry fix:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\secfile]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\secfile]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\open\command]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe]
@=”exefile”
“Content Type”=”application/x-msdownload”

Then save as fix.reg and run it. After restarting the PC I was able to install Malwarebytes Anti-malware and remove the viruses.

Thanks to Kwisatz - http://www.virusremovalguru.com/?p=5528#comment-34676