Wallpaper "stuck"

[skibumre]

I have a box in the middle of my desktop that states,
warning, your computer is infected with spyware.......

There is no box to close it, and I can not click on it to delete it.
I have changed the background, and it stays right in the middle of the
screen. I have booted up in safe mode and it does not appear, however I
can not find it.
I have run ad-aware and Symantec, and removed anything that was on the
computer, but I can not get ride of this box.
any suggestions?

 

[Adam]

Check to see if you have a spyware program installed on your computer
(popular ones are Adaware/Spybot search and destroy) and see if you could
uninstall them through "Add and remove programs" in control panel.

Often or not these types of warnings could also indicate malicious software
trying to think you actually have something when you don't. Try disabling
what starts up when your computer starts to narrow down the culprit.

Depending on how confident you are you could run:

msconfig

You do this by click Start > Run (or windows key + R) then type msconfig
then press enter.

Then click the startup tab across the top, it should the last one. In the
list you should see are the programs that start as your computer does. Do a
quick search on Google for each of the items in the list and this should give
you an idea of what is good and what is not. Disable ones which you think are
dodgy. You can always re-enable them. Restart and see if one of them has made
any effect.

Also check the start up folder (Start > All Programs > Startup) to see if
there are any there too.

Remember before making any changes to your computer to backup all important
documents

Hope this helps
Adam

 

[Charles W Davis]

I have a box in the middle of my desktop that states,
warning, your computer is infected with spyware.......

There is no box to close it, and I can not click on it to delete it.
I have changed the background, and it stays right in the middle of the
screen. I have booted up in safe mode and it does not appear, however I
can not find it.
I have run ad-aware and Symantec, and removed anything that was on the
computer, but I can not get ride of this box.
any suggestions?

Download, install, update and scan Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Following removal of the junk, turn off System Restore. Reboot and turn on
System Restore.

This has worked on two computers with that in the past week.

 

[The Real Truth MVP]

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

 

[skibumre]

I was a little leary at first, but after I gave it a try, IT WORKED FANTASTIC.
Thanks for the Great file.
You are truely MVP.

 

[The Real Truth MVP]

You're Welcome.

 

[Alias]

Stalking is a crime, stop stalking me PCBUTTS.

Get over yourself, Leythos. No one is interested in stalking you.

Alias

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "skibumre" <[email protected]>

| I was a little leary at first, but after I gave it a try, IT WORKED FANTASTIC.
| Thanks for the Great file.
| You are truely MVP.



Far from a MVP.
He is certainly no Microsoft MVP and since he plagiarized the code, he can't be considered
a Most Valuable Professional in *ANY* way shape or form !

This is someone to be avoided at all costs.

 

[Olórin]

says...

And do you really want to trust someone that has had to change their
posting identity after
being busted by MS as a fake MVP?

Having seen the continuing antagonism between the two of you, I'm curious -
is it documented somewhere reputable that he *has* been busted for posing as
an MS MVP?

(Have to say, having this as a signature is more like stalking than anything
I've ever seen from Leythos...)

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

:
: Having seen the continuing antagonism between the two of you, I'm
curious -
: is it documented somewhere reputable that he *has* been busted for posing
as
: an MS MVP?
:
Not publicly. But, the MVPs have had access to the information.