[MBAM won't start]

Exact same problem just hit my friend's computer. I can't fix it. MDAM has been the solution to previous versions but this one just knocked everything out. I was able to use AVG to help take out traces and I edited registry manually to take out others.

I renamed files with different extension but that didnt work.

I came across a post that mentions using "SDFix" to solve the problem. However, SDFix will NOT launch either. I even tried dragging it over "winRar" screen to see contents and clicking on everything in it. A screen or two pops up but it never extracted all contents and didnt help.

It looks like this 2009 version actually was able to knock out all previous solutions. This is a legitimate post above and I'd really love any help as well. Thanks!

I was infected with the autoprotect 2009 malware program last month, and malwarebytes worked without a hitch. My wife downloads a lot of things, so we got infected again. this time however, i was unable to run spysweeper, malware, hijack this, or spyhunter. I unistalled MB, and then it wouldnt even let me run the install from safemode.

My solution to this problem, though seemingly stupid, was to change the name of the setup program from mbam-setup.exe to 22mbam-setup.exe. This finally brought up the installer and installed the program. same deal again though with running the program... it still did nothing. I then went into the program files folder, and changed mbam.exe to xxxx.exe and the program opened and is now running. I think these viruses are now being coded to not to open the programs that kill them, but only by the name of the exe. try this out, I hope i can help a bit with my archaic solution.