Spyware notice

[Guest]

there was a trojan on my computer. I received a message on my desktop that
said, " Your system is infected. System has been stopped due to a serious
malfunction, Spyware activity detected. It is recommended to use a spyware
removal tool to prevent data loss. Do not use the computer before all
spyware removed.

I got rid of the trojan and spyware problems. But the big black box with
the message is still on my desktop. How do I get rid of that?

 

[Andre Da Costa]

I would recommend you use both your AntiVirus and AntiSpyware product to do
a thorough scan in safe mode to make sure all remnants of the Spyware and
Trojans are removed.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/boot_failsafe.mspx

In Microsoft AntiSpyware, on the scan page, choose scan options > full
system scan > (check all boxes below) click run scan now. Also submit
information about the spyware from Tools menu.
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[Bill Sanderson]

Sue - I believe that the message you saw was, in fact an ad for a purported
spyware removal application.

Have you tried right-clicking an empty area on your desktop, and choosing
the Windows XP Theme, and hitting Apply? I'm not sure this is precisely the
right fix--I believe what you are seeing is an HTML page set as your desktop
wallpaper--so you need to change that to whatever you'd prefer.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

You mean the ActiveX desktop thing required view the wallpaper on your
desktop?
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[Mikolaj]

there was a trojan on my computer. I received a message on my desktop

that
said, " Your system is infected. System has been stopped due to a
serious
malfunction, Spyware activity detected. It is recommended to use a
spyware
removal tool to prevent data loss. Do not use the computer before all
spyware removed.

I got rid of the trojan and spyware problems. But the big black box with
the message is still on my desktop. How do I get rid of that?

Please take a look at this web page:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/for...Sheriff_Winstallexe_Spysheriffexe-t22402.html

It includes all necessary information to get rid of this problem, I hope.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Thanks Mikolaj--I could "remember" what this looked like, but not the name!
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[Bill Sanderson]

I think it just sets the ad as a wallpaper--see Mikolaj's response--that's
the correct information about what this was and how to fully remove it, I
believe.

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[Mikolaj]

Thanks Mikolaj--I could "remember" what this looked like, but not the

name!
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Actually I didn't remember it too, but I did remember that have some info
about this somewhere..
So did little search and here it is