O. T. Malwarebytes issue:

wrote:

Hello Paul,

I tried to install malwarebytes on the 8200
following your instructions as I did on the
8500. However it didn't work for the 8200.

It gave me a pop-up with this:

Setup:

CoCreateInstance failed; code 0x80040154
class not registered. and has an OK button.


I click OK and on the Setup/install Window
I see it changing 'creating shortcuts'.

then vbAccelerator SGrid II Control
run time error '0'

then Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Run-time errror '440'
Automation error

Robert


I wasn't able to find any information for
vbAccelerator, so don't know what "440" means.
The MBAM-clean is the only option at this point,
and if it doesn't work, I don't have any other
tricks up my sleeve.

Paul

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Hello Paul,

I tried to install malwarebytes on the 8200
following your instructions as I did on the
8500. However it didn't work for the 8200.

It gave me a pop-up with this:

Setup:

CoCreateInstance failed; code 0x80040154
class not registered. and has an OK button.


I click OK and on the Setup/install Window
I see it changing 'creating shortcuts'.

then vbAccelerator SGrid II Control
run time error '0'

then Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Run-time errror '440'
Automation error

Rober

Try using SAS, as I suggested in an earlier post.
It is easy, free and quick to try, It also uninstalls pretty cleanly (esp if
you stop it from running when you do the uninstall).
--
Buffalo

On Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:26:03 PM UTC-6, wrote:
I have a Dell Dimension 8200(Seagate

Barracuda 7200 HD 160Gb) with XP, SP3,

with Spywareblaster, Avast, Malwarebytes

and Windows firewall.





I tried to run malwarebytes but I received

run errors. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled

it from:



www.malwarebytes.org



but still get the same errors.



I also noticed that the underlined single click

icon's no longer function when I click them. I

have to right click them to open them whereas

before I just single clicked them.





Thoughts/Suggestions,

Robert

Sometimes it helps to download and install the variant install files for infected systems. Some viruses use registry entries to block installation of antivirus programs.

I once had a rootkit or something, and I couldn't install malwarebyte until I reinstalled Windows on a new hard drive.

Isn't SuperAntiSpware the same as Spywareblaster?

Robert

Your suggestion to reinstall Windows 7 Pro
on the 8500 and Windows XP on the 8500?


Dell only gave me (2) disks for Wondows 7 Pro:

Drivers and Utilities and Drivers and Documentation.
I have all the original disks for the 8200 but I had
to download and install onver 300 files to bring it
up to service pack 3. I don;t ever want to do that
again.

Robert

On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:42:31 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Isn't SuperAntiSpware the same as Spywareblaster?


No. They are two very different programs.

Hello Paul,

No, I haven't run 'SpeedUpMyPC', although I
have seen it pop up before, probably when I
when I initially tried to download AdwCleaner
and clicked the big green arrow instead of the small
blue print. You would think they would fix this so
that the download from bleepingcomputer is the
biggest thing you see, not the smallest.

I'll wager allot of people make the same mistake as
I did.

I saw the Junkware Removal Tool link for download
to remove Pup.Optional.ValueApps.

I ran the Junkware Removal Tool on the 8200 which
came up clean but it still will not install malwarebytes
however it did let me install AdwCleaner and I scanned
the computer and it found nothing.

I've run malwarebytes and Adware scans and the 8500
and it's clean.

Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert

Hello Ken,

I remember you well, as you've
helped me in the past.

Should I load this as well then? I had
heard that having too many antivirus,
anti-malware programs etc would cause
conflicts.

Robert

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Hello Ken,

I remember you well, as you've
helped me in the past.

Should I load this as well then? I had
heard that having too many antivirus,
anti-malware programs etc would cause
conflicts.

Robert

SAS (SuperAntiSpyware) and SpyWareBlaster are two entirely different
programs. I don't believe SypwareBlaster will interfere with any anti-virus
or anti-malware program. I use SpywareBlaster on both of my computers (XP
and Wn7 64bit). I use the pd version of SAS (running in real time) on my XP
laptop and the pd version of MBAM (running in real time) on my Win7 64bit
Desktop.
The free SAS and the free MBAM products are on-demand only type programs so
they will not interfere with each other as long as you only manually run one
at a time, which you should do.
Sounds like you are making headway.

--
Buffalo

On 04 Feb 2014, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Isn't SuperAntiSpware the same as Spywareblaster?

They have two different names because they are two different programs.

On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 12:41:20 -0800 (PST), wrote:



Hello Ken,

I remember you well, as you've
helped me in the past.

Should I load this as well then? I had
heard that having too many antivirus,
anti-malware programs etc would cause
conflicts.


You should never have more than one anti-virus program running, but
anti-spyware programs are mostly a different story.

Regarding SAS and Spyware Blaster, first of all Spyware Blaster
doesn't run in the background the way other programs do. What it does
(quoted from their web site) is

"Multi-Angle Protection
Prevent the installation of ActiveX-based spyware and other
potentially unwanted programs.
Block spying / tracking via cookies.
Restrict the actions of potentially unwanted or dangerous web sites."


SAS is OK, but not as good as MalwareBytes AntiMalware. If it were me,
I would drop SAS and use Spyware Blaster and MalwareBytes AntiMalware.

wrote:
Hello Paul,

No, I haven't run 'SpeedUpMyPC', although I
have seen it pop up before, probably when I
when I initially tried to download AdwCleaner
and clicked the big green arrow instead of the small
blue print. You would think they would fix this so
that the download from bleepingcomputer is the
biggest thing you see, not the smallest.

I'll wager allot of people make the same mistake as
I did.

I saw the Junkware Removal Tool link for download
to remove Pup.Optional.ValueApps.

I ran the Junkware Removal Tool on the 8200 which
came up clean but it still will not install malwarebytes
however it did let me install AdwCleaner and I scanned
the computer and it found nothing.

I've run malwarebytes and Adware scans and the 8500
and it's clean.

Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert


OK, when you attempt to install MBAM, does it fail
the same way as the other computer. Is it still
a vbAccelerator error, when MBAM actually starts to run ?

Otherwise, it sounds like things are a little better
now where you are.

Paul

Hello Paul,

I tried to install malwarebytes again on the 8200
and this is what it gave me:

Program_Error_Missing_File (2,0, mbamcore.dll)
The system cannot find the specified file.

Run-time error '53';
file not found: mbamcore

Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert

wrote:
Hello Paul,

I tried to install malwarebytes again on the 8200
and this is what it gave me:

Program_Error_Missing_File (2,0, mbamcore.dll)
The system cannot find the specified file.

Run-time error '53';
file not found: mbamcore

Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert

I use Agent Ransack to find everything that programs install . Use AR to
delete all that the program installs , then reinstall the program .

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Hello Paul,

I tried to install malwarebytes again on the 8200
and this is what it gave me:

Program_Error_Missing_File (2,0, mbamcore.dll)
The system cannot find the specified file.

Run-time error '53';
file not found: mbamcore

Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert

Are you shutting off your anti-virus before installing MBAM?
Have you tried Googling for that error message?
Have you tried using the free SAS I previously mentioned?
If, for some reason, SAS asks for money to remove anything it finds, you
have a imitation copy.
The free SAS and the free MBAM will never ask you for anything extra to
remove what they find.
--
Buffalo