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A lot of times when you’re working on an infected system, it can be difficult to near impossible to get your anti-malware software to install, let alone run.

This is generally because the malware/virus/whatever on your system tries to block known programs from running that might have a chance to remove it. Here’s a few tips to get around that.

First, boot into safe mode. That keeps some of the nastier parts of the viruses from running.

Then, install the Anti-Malware. It should install under safe mode, but if not, try renaming the installer.

Once it is installed, odds are that it still will not run. Go to the directory that it is installed in, and rename the programs exe to something else. Then try to run it directly.

You should now be able to run a scan and remove the infection. Anti-Malware may not be able to remove everything, so try running something like Spybot just to make sure that everything is cleaned off.

Garry’s Mod was an amazing free modification to Half Life 2 that allowed you pretty much unrestricted sandbox access to the game. People were using it to create impressive machines and Rube Goldberg-type creations, along with creating movies showcasing their works.

However, the creators of Garry’s Mod did away with the free version of the game, and started marketing a paid version with a lot more features. It’s not that much money at $10.00 for a copy, however, some people were happy with running the free version of the game. This was all fine until Valve changed the way that half life 2 mods were launched, which broke Garry’s Mod 9.

Here is a fix to that so that you may continue to enjoy the free version of Garry’s Mod. After installing Garry’s Mod, go to the Steam Game’s List, and do the following.

1. Right click on the game in your Steam Game’s list, and select “Create Desktop Shortcut”.
2. Then go to your desktop, and right-click on the shortcut
3. Select Properties
4. In the file path area, highlight and delete the following “-gameidlaunch 13358759685549719772″
5. Add the following line of code minus the quotes where the above was “-applaunch 215″

After doing that, you should be able to use Garry’s Mod 9 the way it was originally released. Enjoy the game, and don’t forget to get the new version if you enjoy it.