virus

[Dalziel]

Running winxp. My screen color changes to white and there is a window
saying
"Warning spyware detected on your computer. Please activate your
antivirus software...."etc.

i know it is a virus and have run spybot and CWshredder but to no
avail.
can someone please help/

Thanks

 

[Iceman]

Running winxp. My screen color changes to white and there is a window
saying
"Warning spyware detected on your computer. Please activate your
antivirus software...."etc.

i know it is a virus and have run spybot and CWshredder but to no
avail.
can someone please help/

You could also try an online virus scan. Try TrendMicro's or Panda
Security.

http://housecall.antivirus.com/antivirus/start_corp.asp
http://www.pandasecurity.com

And have you updated Spybot and your other AV programs?

 

[jimbo571]

Running winxp. My screen color changes to white and there is a window
saying
"Warning spyware detected on your computer. Please activate your
antivirus software...."etc.

i know it is a virus and have run spybot and CWshredder but to no
avail.
can someone please help/

Thanks

Purely and simply spybot and CW are not antivirus progs . Try d/l
Avast antivirus ( free ) .

 

[nass]

Running winxp. My screen color changes to white and there is a window
saying
"Warning spyware detected on your computer. Please activate your
antivirus software...."etc.

i know it is a virus and have run spybot and CWshredder but to no
avail.
can someone please help/

Thanks

1... Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window
you will see these Options:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs
| Advanced .

Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called
[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on
[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [
Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.

= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your
browser, On how to disable the Add-ons follow this:
Click on Programs Tab and then click the Manage Add-Ons Button there Disable
the None/Not Verified Plug-ins/Add-ons ( you need to Renable them one-by-one
later and see which is the culprit or you can send them here in your next
post) and click [OK] to confirm your Changes.
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256

Click on Advanced Tab and scroll down under the browsing option and uncheck
this box:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) and click Apply
then OK to close your IE Properties.

Scan for malware from here:

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm
Run disk cleanup on your Drive.
HTH,
nass

 

[The Real Truth MVP]

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[Dalziel]

Use my Remove-it software, it will remove that malware from your system.
Download it herehttp://pcbutts1.com/downloads/tools/tools.htm

Thanks to everyone especially PCButts whose program removed the
threat.
I still don't know what it is or was but at least things appear to be
normal.
I use the free version of AVG so could not understand why that didn't
pick it up. Also it would not let me run the on-line virus checks.
Just stopped those pages from loading even though I could ping them.
But thanks again to all from a very grateful computer user.