Not a valid win32 application

Posted by Ravi on August 27, 2008, 7:04 am

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Unable to run any tools...getting an error "not a valid win32 application"

any ideas/...doesnt have any symptoms of infection....

is it caused by somekind of trojan?

raV

Posted by Malke on August 27, 2008, 7:47 am

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Ravi wrote:

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Which tools in particular? Please provide more details to help us help you.

The First Question Of Troubleshooting: what changed between the time things
worked and the time they didn't?

The Second Question of Windows Troubleshooting: what is the malware/virus
status of the machine? If you think it is clean, what programs (and
versions) did you use to determine this?

Be sure the computer is clean:
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Posted by Volodymyr M. Shcherbyna on August 27, 2008, 11:30 am

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Usually this happens if someone edited the data of PE section in exe file,
but did not updated the appropriated section sizes and RVAs. So it could be
a buggy virus or tool.

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Posted by Peter Foldes on August 27, 2008, 12:50 pm

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Pick your issue.

Next time post correctly and describe everything

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=3Dnavclient&ie=3DUTF-8&rls=3DGGLD,G=
GLD:2005-20,GGLD:en&q=3Dnot+a+valid+win32+application

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Posted by ~BD~ on August 27, 2008, 1:23 pm

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Posted this link:-

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-20,GGLD:en&q=not+a+valid+win32+application

I copied and pasted it into my browser (AOL) and I arrived at "not a valid
win32 application" results (375,000 items)

I then typed "not a valid win32 application" into Google and ended up here:-

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2005-20%2CGGLD%3Aen&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=not+a+valid+win32+application&btnG=Search

I seem to have ended up with exactly the same 375,000 items!

I'm always interested in when I find the 'unusal' happening on my PC. I'd
much appreciate ideas on why these different links take me to the same
place.

Thank you.

Dave

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