Adding Reply Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic NEED HELP ASAP!!! Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post Ronde Posted at 1:31 pm on Nov. 24, 2005 Alright so my dad was trying to download this crack for Civilization 4 so he could run it w/o the disk. But the crack had some pretty nasty spy ware attached to it. We got rid of all the spyware but the spyware turned the desktop background into a thing that says your computers infected with spyware and don't use it till you get the spyware off. Normally my dad wouldn't care about this but it's not his computer and the person's computer it is will be pissed if the background is permanetly set like that. And I forgot to mention that when I go to desktop settings in properties it won't let me change the background, it's look all the buttons are essentially gone. Anybody have this happen to them or know what my pops needs to do, thanks.

Replies teufel Posted at 7:29 am on Nov. 28, 2005 how to get rid of spyware....  go into the msconfig list to check to see whats running in the back groun.... start, run, msconfig then go into the start up list... in there loook at the location...   then go into the resigtry and delete it! simply as that Alan18 Posted at 1:38 pm on Nov. 24, 2005 Post all that here:http://forums.techguy.org/index-s=611f2abc587d9d35c18a38838f3684ae&;.html A great tech site, it'll have you straitened out in about 30-60 minutes. Kenny1 Posted at 1:38 pm on Nov. 24, 2005 If you can find the filename of whatevers doing that do a google search for ways to get it off. If you cant, go to trendmicro and take the online virus scanner they have, i found its really good at finding virii. nycboy9114 Posted at 1:36 pm on Nov. 24, 2005 it happened to me. it got really nasty in the end and i had to reformat the whole thing. try running all the antivirus and antispyware stuff you have, if you find the source try using killbox to kill it, or just purge the file. Ronde Posted at 1:31 pm on Nov. 24, 2005 Alright so my dad was trying to download this crack for Civilization 4 so he could run it w/o the disk. But the crack had some pretty nasty spy ware attached to it. We got rid of all the spyware but the spyware turned the desktop background into a thing that says your computers infected with spyware and don't use it till you get the spyware off. Normally my dad wouldn't care about this but it's not his computer and the person's computer it is will be pissed if the background is permanetly set like that. And I forgot to mention that when I go to desktop settings in properties it won't let me change the background, it's look all the buttons are essentially gone. Anybody have this happen to them or know what my pops needs to do, thanks. All 5 previous replies displayed.