Invalid Win32 apps WTF?

This is a discussion about Invalid Win32 apps WTF? in the Windows Software category; Lately alot of my programs have stopped running correctly. I double clicked Quake3 the other day, and it gave me a message saying invalid Win32 application. So I recopied the. exe file and patched it up again and it worked.

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Lately alot of my programs have stopped running correctly. I double clicked Quake3 the other day, and it gave me a message saying invalid Win32 application. So I recopied the .exe file and patched it up again and it worked. No harm done, but strange.
 
Today I tried to launch MSN Messenger and got an invalid Win32 app, then I tried Soldier of Fortune and got invalid app, I then booted into WinME and they worked fine. I am running Win2k SP2, I am reinstalling SP2 right now to see if it fixes and will scan for viruses later but any other ideas?

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Ah ha! W95.Spaces.1445 virus and there are loads of them everywhere, must've happened when I was using WinME and working with some downloaded programs. Blasted Kazaa.