Vista - Virus??? Please help...

Hi guys i m in a serious problem here. My antivirus is turned off and i cant turn it on. I m unable to update windows. When i click on malwarebytes, UAC comes up but when i click Continue, it wont come up. I assume that its a virus but i scanned my system from Defender and NOD32 and the results are ok. I dont understand what's going on.

Dinesh I found this - hope it helps

Error 80244019

Thanks leslie, it was all because of the DNS servers. i use a fixed ip and DNS server and it was changed. so i did put my old DNS server back and its now working. but still when i click on Malwarebytes, it wont open, i have reinstalled it twice but it wont open. any idea?

You could try uninstalling mbam with Revo Uninstaller Freeware - Uninstall Software, Remove Programs, Solve uninstall problems

Then d/l a fresh copy from mbam site and see if installing that helps.

hey i just installed spybot and the file is downloaded on my desktop. but it shows as an unknown file. how do i open it? when i double click it, its giving me some programs thru which i can open it like IE, vlc, etc. how do i open this .exe file?

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Hi Dinesh,

Sounds like a problem with the .exe file association,
you could navigate to this key :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.exe\UserChoice

and delete it.

Or merge this .reg file

Remove-exe-UserChoice.reg

i was able to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.exe\ but there was no UserChoice. I merge the .reg file. i m downloading spybot again. i will let you know if it works.

You should have this :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.exe\OpenWithProgids\exefile

with hex value of 0

If not merge this:

exe-filext-default.reg

It worked, thanks siw.