It doesnt let me run any exe. program!

Anyone experienced this, and tips to remove?

Tried malware bytes and system restore, none have worked so far.

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Great puzzle. Thanks!

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That's what you get for downloading porn ;3

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I smell trollz xD

You sure know how to download viruses bro! Dunno what the solution could be tho. Never had issues like this. Get a good antivirus and run it, see if it helps :)

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Hey man - Chrome, Firefox and IE aren't .exe - they're magic!

Seriously though, combofix.

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How did you start your browser???

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You have won again! :(

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This seems appropriate.

12 years ago
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Maybe he is using a different computer or his phone to post this thread.

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How did you launch your browser?

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Jinx.

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How did you launch malware bytes?

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^ THIS.

I don't have whatever problem Voho has, but goddamn it, Malware Bytes has never opened for me. :(

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Run as admin

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Like a boss.

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I suggest start you task manager and click on the process tab and look for the exe that started doing that for you or if you don't remember what it was just look for something suspicious or odd in the process's tab. Then locate its destination folder by right click on it and click on show destination folder and delete it. I have dealt with many many people that have had issues like this before and i have fix those issues that way. Good luck on malware hunting.

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I click internet_explorer.exe, and it asks me if i want to use internet_explorer.exe to open internet_explorer.exe. imad.

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huh what do you mean? can you make that a little more clear. From what i got it seams like what ever malware it is its blocking you explorer.exe

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try spybot search and destroy

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Boot into safe mode, run rkill.exe, use your antivirus and malwarebytes to scan for viruses. See if you still got it afterwards.

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^This

12 years ago
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the usual...
Thanks for Skyrim!

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Do not say thanks for . . . the nozzle.

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If I was there looking at your machine and fiddling with it, I could probably fix it, but trying to help you through a forum post is very problematic, and I don't have a lot of time right now. Good luck with it, though.

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What I like to do is finding the .exe that is causing me problems, then right-click->properties->add .jpg to the name field.
Normally you shouldn't be able to rename it (much less change the extension) when it's running, so try to kill the process and if it fails, launch in safe mode (keep F8 down as soon as you restart the computer). Then apply the above steps. It rarely fixes everything, but it does disable the virus from running.

Windows only obviously.

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safe mode, system restore.
if that fails
combofix

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+1 I had the same thing a long time ago and combofix fixed it.

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System restore or reinstall windows. The lazy solutions.

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There's not much you can do if you can't open any .exe's

Try to back-up as much important data as you can (if you want) and then wipe your data by re-installing your OS.

If you have Windows, I think it keeps your files automatically in a file called windows.old after you re-install your OS, but be careful as that may still contain the files which started your virus. Good luck.

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He can use a live cd/usb with an antivirus.
For example: http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk

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Fuck it, im reinstalling Windows and buying a mac.

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mac

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Good luck trying to play games on mac

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Steam has a whole side of the store dedicated to mac games, and I only play indie stuff anyway

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Yeah, and there's only 221 games on the Mac side of Steam versus 1506 on the PC-side. This is taken straight from Steam by the way, click the magnifying glass icon on the search bar, and fill in the two fields: All items to Games, Any OS to PC and then Mac.

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Triple a titles are too mainstream for me as well.

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good luck with that over priced piece o crap mac

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I got the money to afford one, so what the heck.

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You got the money? Then why you don't buy this DELUXE bag of DELUXE shit! It's better than that shitty free shit on that shitty toilet, and look, it's WHITEY!

*Only $3.000, shipping included

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Resistance to stereotypes is futile :(

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My Mac has never gotten virus so your making a great decision. Although there's not as much games as PC on Steam but there's still some good games out there.

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I can use bootcamp to play windows games, and as you said, no virus risk, and huge battery life when doing menial tasks.

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I would like to correct you on the no virus part. There definitely exist viruses for mac.(if you don’t believe me, just Google it). There are however less viruses on mac than on windows. the reason for this is not a better security on mac. No, it's because there are far more windows users than mac users. and since virus programmers tend to infect as much people as possible, they obviously choose windows.

But as the popularity of mac increases. So will the number of viruses

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This is it exactly.

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How is this Windows' fault?

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Because ℳI€RO$O₣₮, duh!

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As I once read, "Buying a Mac after having a problem with Windows is like becoming gay after one bad experience with a girl".

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You can get a virus on a Mac too. If you are smart enough to get one on Windows, you sure can on a Mac. They aren't as common because despite what Mac users think, they only take up around 10% of the entire computer market. Everyone attacks the most popular platform. ;)

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Install gentoo

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gotta go fast

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and gentoo can starting exe files? :-P

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Use Combofix.

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lol... virus :D you simply removed connection (by accident) between exe and built-in application used to open exes -_-

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+1

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"open with Adobe Photoshop"

MUHARR

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what does it do? does it show you that you can't find the .exe or something similar?

If thats the case you can just restore the registry entries for executables and reboot....

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FORMAT C:

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Is it only with shortcuts? my freind has problems with all shorcuts, but everthing else works xD he used Chrome to open it all and somehow it works for him xD

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