Malwarebytes failed to perform desired action.

Malwarebytes failed to perform desired action.

Hi stepheen,

"[Open Event] failed to perform desired action. Error Code : 2" and "Unable to execute file: C:Program FilesMalwarebytes' Anti-Malwarembam.exe CreateProcess failed; code 2. The System cannot find the file specified." errors are both caused by the same reason which is that MalwareBytes can't load one of its components.

Some malwares do prevent MalwareBytes from loading normally usually by targeting the main executable of the program mbam.exe you can overcome this by renaming mbam.exe to another random name not blocked by the malware. MalwareBytes even provide you with a link for downloading mbam.exe with random names: http://downloads.malwarebytes.org/mbam-download-exe-random.php save the downloaded file in the folder of Malwarebytes and try opening it. Some other malwares block any executable but the explorer.exe so you can try renaming it to that and trying again.

If this doesn't help then you can try to remove it from the control panel add/remove programs and then installing it again or you can try using another anti malware program to clean your computer of any malwares present.