URGENT : Running Spybot - Search and Destroy Gives problems.

Hi Everyone,

As per some people recommendations, inorder to clean my pc against virus, I
have downloaded and ran
"Spybot - Search and Destroy" program. After it finished its work , it said
it has cleaned so and so.
However to my utter surprise, now I am not able to use my PC at all.
Whenever I try to any program say ,notepad,
I get the message "This file does not have a program associated with it for
performing this action. Create an association in the
Folder Options Control Panel".

This is so shocking that I tried to fix the virus issue and I am not even
able to start anything or even work on my computer.

Let me tell you,firstly
the spyboy has created a system restore point before it started its
process.
Then gave me a list of all the problems that my PC had.
And then when I pressed the fix button it has "so-called" fixed. However
that fix ,I think,
has screwed some very basic information in the registry. Because of which
even
basic applications(in fact nothing) are not running.

I was so happy that, it has removed so many unnecessary programs and files,
however it has also
tampered with some very basic required files or registry. So finally I have
restored my PC to a desired restore point.

So everyone out there, do you have any further suggestions at this stage.

Anyway, watchout before you use any kind of such programs.

Waiting for all your updates.
Thanks,

I believe I've seen this happen before though not a result of SpyBot. Most
likely the .exe extension is no longer associated with file typ
"application". This can be fixed by opening up any windows explorer (e.g.
MyDocuments), selecting Tools > FolderTypes from the menu, and then going
to the FileTypes tab. From there select New button and then type EXE in the
extension edit box. Clicking advanced should show "Application" in the
associated file type (may take a second or two). If it doesn't show this,
then select "Application" from the dropdown list and select Ok. (if it is
already set to this, then this is not the problem so cancel out)

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"Lakshmi Jagarlapudi" <jlnarayana@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:0t1Gc.25838$7t3.8334@attbi_s51...
> Hi Everyone,
>
> As per some people recommendations, inorder to clean my pc against virus,
> I
> have downloaded and ran
> "Spybot - Search and Destroy" program. After it finished its work , it
> said
> it has cleaned so and so.
> However to my utter surprise, now I am not able to use my PC at all.
> Whenever I try to any program say ,notepad,
> I get the message "This file does not have a program associated with it
> for
> performing this action. Create an association in the
> Folder Options Control Panel".
>
> This is so shocking that I tried to fix the virus issue and I am not even
> able to start anything or even work on my computer.
>
> Let me tell you,firstly
> the spyboy has created a system restore point before it started its
> process.
> Then gave me a list of all the problems that my PC had.
> And then when I pressed the fix button it has "so-called" fixed. However
> that fix ,I think,
> has screwed some very basic information in the registry. Because of which
> even
> basic applications(in fact nothing) are not running.
>
> I was so happy that, it has removed so many unnecessary programs and
> files,
> however it has also
> tampered with some very basic required files or registry. So finally I
> have
> restored my PC to a desired restore point.
>
> So everyone out there, do you have any further suggestions at this stage.
>
> Anyway, watchout before you use any kind of such programs.
>
> Waiting for all your updates.
> Thanks,
>
>
>

"Lakshmi Jagarlapudi" <jlnarayana@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:0t1Gc.25838$7t3.8334@attbi_s51...
> Hi Everyone,
>
> As per some people recommendations, inorder to clean my pc against virus,
> I
> have downloaded and ran
> "Spybot - Search and Destroy" program. After it finished its work , it
> said
> it has cleaned so and so.
> However to my utter surprise, now I am not able to use my PC at all.
> Whenever I try to any program say ,notepad,
> I get the message "This file does not have a program associated with it
> for
> performing this action. Create an association in the
> Folder Options Control Panel".

ime spybot sd is buggy betaware and much too agressive at wiping-out
perfectly innocent registry keys... i got rid of it

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francis