Desktop Wallpaper Problem

[Swordmaster]

I have Windows XP, for starters, and only know the basics about computers, so bare with me.

I go onto my computer today and I find that the wallpaper says, paraphrased, "WE HAVE DETECTED SPYWARE ON YOUR SYSTEM, REMOVE..."

I did as instructed, and restarted my system. Now, that's gone, but I can't set my wallpaper back to the way it was. The option to do so under properties is not there.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[black_dust]

Download spybot and run a search make 100% sure

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

 

[Kable24]

You got tricked by a virus/spyware in itself. Your wallpaper would never tell you that you have a virus. More than likely you got highjacked. Try running, Spybot S&D, SpySweeper (pay), SuperAntiSpyware, Ad-Aware and any of the virus scans, like Norton, McAfee, AVG, Avast. You may also want to get a program called hijackthis run it and post the results on here or on another tech board that can go over it and see where the culprit is.

 

[Swordmaster]

Ah ****. Thanks for the help.

Though I should mention that as soon as I ran the virus scan and all that, the "warning" on the wallpaper disappeared, and I was left with just a blank wallpaper.

Thanks again, though.

 

[Swordmaster]

And my problem is fixed Thanks yet again

 

[Kable24]

What was the fix?

 

[strikezone89]

^he ran spybot

 

[black_dust]

and stop looking at porn sites

 

[Kable24]

^he ran spybot

Maybe, but then again maybe he didn't.

 

[Swordmaster]

Nope, ran spybot just as you advised