Avian Gamers Network

Somehow I've picked up this program that makes a baloon dialogue window pop up that says, "Your Computer is infected.. etc." It looks like a standard Windows dialogue, and if you click it, it starts running this "Pest Trap" program that scans and says I've got 150 or so trojans and spyware programs. Then it tries to sell me the full version to clean them off. The problem is, I can't get rid of the bugger, and it pops that blasted window up every 10 seconds. Somebody help.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Ad-aware has already been run, btw. To no avail.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Cough

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Moge

yeah, no joke. problem is, it's a work computer. So I gotta run it by the boss before downloading mozilla. I use it at home.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

ok.. I think I finally got rid of the spyware. But now I'm trying to get my desktop back to normal. Part of the spyware program was to change my desktop wallpaper to a nasty blue background with a big black box in the middle that says my PC shouldn't be used until i fix a virus.

So now that the spyware is gone, I can't get that nasty wallpaper off. When I go to desktop properties, the word "Background" is greyed out, and I can't select anything inside the box.

If I just right click on a picture and select "set as desktop" then it lays the new desktop underneath the nasty blue sign. Any advice here?

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Can you roll back your PC to a point before you got the virus?

Try grabbing this program called Regtick. It should let you tun off the "Disable users changing wallpaper" feature.

http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dlregtick.html

If it doesn't, then there's some funky changes that have been done to your Registry... and backing up to a safe version, or researching on how to fix that would be your next step.

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--The Hermit

Usually when I get soch background I look under controlpanel and go into add/remove programs and look for some programs that I'm very sure about not allowed to be there.. some like "search assistant" or "home search" stuf like that...
others can be antivirus programs that shouldn't be there...
Usually there aren't any info on them at the right side, of when the where installed, when they where last used and how much they take of harddrive...

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1st Feb 2008