HJT causing general protection faults in GDI.EXE

I'm trying to clean up a friends computer...in the meantime, i've downloaded (from this website) the latest version of Spybot S&D and when I go to install it I keep getting a general protection fault in GDI.EXE!! I kind of know what that is about, but I can't seem to make it go away (so...maybe I don't know what it is about!!)!! So after researching a bit, and since it is Win 98 (with no updates, believe it or not) I upgraded the Microsoft Visual Basic Runtime files to version 6.0!! Restarted the computer...and then was able to install Spybot!!

Great, Right.................Wrong!!!!

When I run the program...it only scans for 29 things, which was acquired when I checked for updates!! Apparently when it installed, it didn't install the 20,000 something definitions that come with the latest install version of the downloaded program!!

No big deal...I figured i would just uninstall it, download again and reinstall, and see if that resolved the problem.......except now it won't let me uninstall!!! No matter whether I do it by Add/Remove programs in the control panel, or if I do the uninstall option that comes up under Spybot in the program list in the start menu!!

I get this error now....UNINS000 caused a general protection fault in module GDI.EXE at 002: 00000041. Followed by a bunch of code etc.!!!!

So now i'm stuck with an unoperable Spybot on my computer that I can't uninstall!!!!

Any ideas pretty please

 

I sincerely apologize for that!!!!! Must have been having a temporary brain fart when I typed that title!!

I will try the safe mode stuff and see what that brings!!

Roger

 

Thank You Chaslang...safe mode let me uninstall it, then I reinstalled it and it is working fine now!!

Thanks Again
Roger