Pop-ups/spybots deleted my desktop wallpaper

[Chumley the Walrus]

Even tho i have run Lavasoft's AdAware 6.0 and Spybot Seek&Destroy,
some sort of popup virus/spybot has deleted my Desktop desktop.html
wallpaper, my Windows Explorer File Manager is slow, if not crashing,
and Internet Explorer now starts up automatically at various times
with pop-ups and such. Is there anything out there that will fix this?
I have XP Pro, is it safe to delete IExplorer and reload another
copy?
Thanks
Chumley

 

[Phil]

Even tho i have run Lavasoft's AdAware 6.0 and Spybot Seek&Destroy,
some sort of popup virus/spybot has deleted my Desktop desktop.html
wallpaper,

There is no such file as desktop.html. Not sure what you mean here.

my Windows Explorer File Manager is slow, if not crashing,

File manager is from windows 3.1. If you mean windows explorer, what's the
error messages, if any?

and Internet Explorer now starts up automatically at various times
with pop-ups and such. Is there anything out there that will fix this?
I have XP Pro, is it safe to delete IExplorer and reload another
copy?

You cannot delete iexplore.exe. It's part of windows. You can
reinstall/repair it, but I think you need to try this first:
You've got spyware, adware, a trojan, a search engine hijacker, or a home
page hijacker.

Run these tools weekly
Spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
Ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

CWShredder: http://209.133.47.200/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe

 

[Guest]

have you virus scanned? grisoft.com free antivirus
spybot is now version 1.3 safer-networking.org
and yes use the add/remove programs to repair ie.

 

[Guest]

Chumley the Walrus,

Please see the following instructions.

Spyware Removal:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/windowsxpsolutions.htm

Startup and Temporary Files Cleanup:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/optimizewindows.htm

Good Luck!

 

[Phil]

You cannot repair IE from add/remove programs by default in xp. That option
may be available if you did an upgrade install from win9x, but other than
that, you can't repair IE that way.

 

[JerryMouse]

Even tho i have run Lavasoft's AdAware 6.0 and Spybot Seek&Destroy,
some sort of popup virus/spybot has deleted my Desktop desktop.html
wallpaper, my Windows Explorer File Manager is slow, if not crashing,
and Internet Explorer now starts up automatically at various times
with pop-ups and such. Is there anything out there that will fix this?
I have XP Pro, is it safe to delete IExplorer and reload another
copy?

Iexplore = IE
Iexplorer = spyware

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem. My desktop is overlayed with an off-white page that blinks.

I have run: cwshredder, hijackthis, spybot & adaware. No flags went up in Norton Internet Security; Antivirus shows all clean; System restore failed.