Spyware

[Guest]

I have a blue desktop background with a black box saying "Spyware Infection"
in red letters set as my background and it will not allow me to change it,
what should I do?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Remove the viruses and/or spyware from your computer.

 

[Ray]

You are indeed infected. If you do not have the means to remove the
infection; go to www.trendmicro and initiate the free system scan and
infection removal. This is a great site for help with any type infection.

 

[Lews]

If you have SpyAxe, PSGuard, Smitfraud, Spy Sheriff, Sinnaka Advertisments
or detections for Puper or Alemod that can not seem to be removed
automatically, please try this automated removal tool.

AntiPuper v1.1 by secured2k
http://secured2k.home.comcast.net/tools/AntiPuper.exe

What does this tool do?
This tool will attempt to delete several known Trojan files. These files are
modified by the malware authors and encrypted to avoid detection.
Fortunately, many of these tend to use the exact same file names. If the
files are in use, locked, protected, etc, this program will schedule Windows
to remove the files upon restarting.

This program will also remove some common security policies that are changed
by viruses and worms. Policies that lock out your desktop changes, windows
update, Windows Firewall, Explorer Run policies, Registry editing, and more
are all reset.

Finally, if you have an infected Alemod WININET.DLL file, this program will
try to copy a clean version from your Windows File Protection folder and
replace the bad copy on restart. If a backup copy can not be found, the tool
will quickly look for McAfee Antivirus files and attempt to clean a copy of
the file to replace the bad one on reboot. If all of this fails, you will
need to manually replace/clean your WININET.DLL file.

 

[Ray]

Go to www.trendmicro.com and run their (free) system scan - it will remove
any known spyware.