Re: Security Warning on Desktop

From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/04/05 

Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 06:58:30 -0400

You've been had. There are malicious web site that download onto your
computer crap that will tell you that you have this or that - and then point
you to THEIR web site to remove what you don't likely have. Did you notice
that they want you to BUY! The only thing on your computer is what they put
there and it is very hard to get rid of.

There are numerous FREE utilities that are much better at removing
spyware/trojans.

Ad-Aware Free Edition from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
SpyBot Search and Destroy from http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Download, install and update before using these utilities. 

-- 
Regards,
Richard Urban
aka   Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"L A Leopold" <L A Leopold@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:AD741453-2F2B-444E-BBF8-246FE3245491@microsoft.com...
>I recently encountered a security warning due to a trojan on my computer. 
>I
> removed the offensive code using a spyware removal utility, however, the
> background screen still has the warning.  I attempted to right-click on 
> the
> background to change it, but there was no option on the menu to do so.  I
> also tried opening a picture I wanted to put on the desktop, selected the
> option to use it as the desktop background, and nothing happened.
>
> Has anyone ever seen this problem before?  Is there a security setting to
> lock the background screen that I can change?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks

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