Background won't change - Virus!

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My computer has recently been infected, although Microsoft Antispyware and F
Secure Anti Virus seems has now cleared. Functionality seems to be back to
normal but I cannot change the background, which now says 'you system is
infected' on an all blue background. Can't change or restore previous
settings.

Any ideas?
 
I'll tell you how to restore your background but before that check for
infections with these :

@ SpyBot Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/microsoft.en.html


@ Ad-Aware SE Personal
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware


@ Microsoft Antispyware (only for genuie Windows versions)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/downloads/default.mspx

and

http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

Panda Software free Active Scan,where you can check your
PC for ALL TYPES of security threats and clean viruses and worms


http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
Kaspersky free online scanner
and checker for suspicious files.


Then,WHEN YOU ARE CLEAN ,right click on the desktop -Properties- Desktop
..Click on the "Web tab" and uncheck the box next to "My Current Home Page"
and make sure the box
next to "Lock desktop items" is unchecked. Apply and OK .


Nice computing !

Microsoft (R)
suggests 3 + 1 general steps how to protect
your PC and the infomation stored on it,
your privacy and your family
1.Use an internet firewall
2.Enable Automatic Updates for your PC
3.Use an antivirus software
4.Use antispyware software

Goto http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security and learn more
Check the Security Essentials for your OS and also have a look at all
sections!




Panda_man
" Let's beat malware black and blue"
" No new epidemic of all kind of malware -> Panda TruPrevent"
 
From: "Mendi" <[email protected]>

| My computer has recently been infected, although Microsoft Antispyware and F
| Secure Anti Virus seems has now cleared. Functionality seems to be back to
| normal but I cannot change the background, which now says 'you system is
| infected' on an all blue background. Can't change or restore previous
| settings.
|
| Any ideas?


For non-viral malware...


Please download, install and update the following software...

Ad-aware SE v1.06
http://www.lavasoft.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.4
http://security.kolla.de/

After the software is updated, I suggest scanning the system in Safe Mode.

I also suggest downloading, installing and updating BHODemon for any Browser Helper Objects
that may be on the PC.

BHODemon
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm

For viral malware...

Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } 4 batch files, 6 Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend, Kasperski and McAfee Anti Virus Command Line
Scanners to
remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode. This
way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web site. The choices are;
Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

* * * Please report back your results * * *
 
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