In my old HP Presario Notebook when I try to install Windows Security
Essentials, I receive the following message:
"mssefullinstall-x86fre-en-us-xp.exe is not a valid Win32 appliccations".
I tried several ways, like saving the file and running later and stoppingAV
and antyspy appliccations running, to no avail.
I don't experience any problems installing other appliccations, which I do
frequentely.
What can this be?
Thank you in advance,
Humpty
Expand your scanning software horizons. There are other scanners with
better reputations that those you listed.
Any scanning tool form MS is not even on my list of scanning. MS is
not in the malicious software detection/removal business and only care
about a limited list of files that are important to them. You should
stick with tools from the detection/removal experts where that is
their only business.
To have the expectation that one or more scanning tools knows
everything about every kind of infection is naive and that expectation
exceeds reality.
One of the things malware will do is prevent you from running things
that can be used to detect and remove it. It recognizes the names of
some installation and running processes and prevents them from
running. That may not be your issue here but it is well known fact.
Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware
detection programs:
Malwarebytes (MBAM):
http://malwarebytes.org/
SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS):
http://www.superantispyware.com/
They can be uninstalled later if desired.
If your .exe file still will not launch, rename it to something else
(humpty.exe) and then try to launch it. If it still won't run, then
continue troubleshooting.
It does not make sense to troubleshoot an issue on a system that might
be infected.
