Help with, Background warning

beaverballer · 01-04-2006, 08:46 PM

I suddenly had some error messages pop up today about spyware. Including one that took over by desktop background. In large red letters it warns of a "Spyware Infection" then tells me to remove spyware before i do anything else.

Unfortunatly I have can not manage to get rid of the spyware. I have run...

Ad-Aware SE Personal
Spybot - Search & Destroy
Microsoft Antispyware
and some cheap virus thing that came with my computer

The things i have noticed coming up in my scans include nondiscript trojans with the microsoft scan and "Avenue A Inc" and "Doubleclick" with Spybot.

What can I do to take care of these problems and get this annoying warning off my desktop.

Thanks,
Brandon

**Grove** · 01-04-2006, 08:49 PM

Hi and Welcome to TSF,

To take care of your problem, I suggest that you do the following:

Please run an online scan using at least 2 of the following:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/virusscan.aspx
http://www.pandasoftware.com/actives..._principal.htm
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php
http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/d...d=ie&venid=sym
http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/virusscan.aspx

Please download HijackThis - this program will help us determine if there are any spyware/malware on your computer. Double-click on the file you just downloaded.
Click on the "Unzip" button to install. It will by default install to the directory - C:\PROGRAM FILES\HIJACKTHIS\

Double click on HijackThis.exe to run the program.

1. If it gives you an intro screen, just choose 'Do a system scan and save a logfile'.
2. If you don't get the intro screen, just hit Scan and then click on Save log.
3. Post the hijackthis.log file along with any results from online scans, in the HijackThis Log Help forum. Do not fix anything in HijackThis since they may be harmless.

01-04-2006, 08:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
beaverballer Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3 OS: XP	Help with, Background warning I suddenly had some error messages pop up today about spyware. Including one that took over by desktop background. In large red letters it warns of a "Spyware Infection" then tells me to remove spyware before i do anything else. Unfortunatly I have can not manage to get rid of the spyware. I have run... Ad-Aware SE Personal Spybot - Search & Destroy Microsoft Antispyware and some cheap virus thing that came with my computer The things i have noticed coming up in my scans include nondiscript trojans with the microsoft scan and "Avenue A Inc" and "Doubleclick" with Spybot. What can I do to take care of these problems and get this annoying warning off my desktop. Thanks, Brandon

01-04-2006, 08:49 PM	#2 (permalink)
Grove Professor/Moderator, TSF Design School Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 2,383 OS: Windows Vista SP2 32bit	Hi and Welcome to TSF, To take care of your problem, I suggest that you do the following: Please run an online scan using at least 2 of the following: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/virusscan.aspx http://www.pandasoftware.com/actives..._principal.htm http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/d...d=ie&venid=sym http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/virusscan.aspx Please download HijackThis - this program will help us determine if there are any spyware/malware on your computer. Double-click on the file you just downloaded. Click on the "Unzip" button to install. It will by default install to the directory - C:\PROGRAM FILES\HIJACKTHIS\ Double click on HijackThis.exe to run the program. 1. If it gives you an intro screen, just choose 'Do a system scan and save a logfile'. 2. If you don't get the intro screen, just hit Scan and then click on Save log. 3. Post the hijackthis.log file along with any results from online scans, in the HijackThis Log Help forum. Do not fix anything in HijackThis since they may be harmless. __________________ ========================================== Get Help: TSF Security Forum \| HijackThis \| MB's 5 Step Process Get Clean: AdAware SE \| Spybot S&D \| CWShredder \| Ewido \| CleanUp! Get Protected: SpywareBlaster \| SpywareGuard \| Windows Updates \| IE-SpyAd If TSF has helped you, please consider making a donation to help keep the board running.