No clue what's wrong.

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Lone_Spartan, Jan 29, 2006.

  1. Lone_Spartan

    Lone_Spartan Private E-2

    Windows automatically changed my background to a bright blue one, with "SPYWARE INFECTION" in big bold red letters. It also says "Your system is infected with spyware. Windows recommends you to use a spyware removal tool to prevent loss of important data and increase prefomance (no, that's not a typo, it's actually spelled wrong....) Using this PC before having it cleaned from spyware threats is highly discouraged". I also can't change my background. There is also a long notice that pops up in the bottom right hand corner, that is filled with typos and bad grammar.

    I ran AVG and Ad-Aware and they both say there's nothing wrong, but I will be sitting there playing WoW and my computer will type all kinds of stuff on it's own, open the map/character/item screens. When I close WoW the "Run" box is always open too.

    I used to have Kazaa. I uninstalled it a while ago, but when I tried to uninstall P2P Networking, and afew other applications, it said something like I needed to contact my network administrator. This doesn't make sense because the account I'm on is the admin. After it said that, it removed it from my Add/Remove list without uninstalling it. Is there some other way I can remove these applications? Thanks for the help in advance.
     
  2. Lone_Spartan

    Lone_Spartan Private E-2

    I ran the Spyware Doctor, you know, the one that basically says "We found all these Malware programs... want them removed? Pay us bitch!". There are 67 Malware things, one of them a Trojan that hijacks the desktop background. Do you have any programs as good as Spyware Doctor that are free?
     
  3. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Majorgeeks!

    Uninstall Spyware Doctor because it is of no use to you whatsoever. And there are better alternatives if you want to buy something.

    Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.

    - Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support

    Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.

    - Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.

    It also sounds like you may have Smitfraud related problem so run the steps in the below but skip the Panda log at the end because you should already have done it during the above READ & RUN ME:
    SpywareStrike, Smitfraud, SpySheriff, SpyAxe & PSGuard Removal

    Attach the smitfiles.txt log too.



    After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:

    Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis

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