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Osiris
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Posted: 29th Oct 2007 21:39
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So my friend did something last night on his computer and now he cant change his desktop background to anything but one of the color choices . I tried everything I could think of to fix it. The menu for wallpapers if greyd out. I googled it and I found an answer, to download cleandesktop.exe. However I cant find it. Thanks for your help.

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Keo C
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Posted: 29th Oct 2007 21:57
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Sounds like he got a bit of spyware.


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David R
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Posted: 29th Oct 2007 22:03 Edited at: 29th Oct 2007 22:07
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Erm, that's not good. The wallpaper change disabling is a symptom of SpySherrif, and it's a pre-emptive action, before it starts setting your wallpaper to "VIRUS INFECTION".

There could of course be another explanation, but SpySherrif is the most prominent cause I know of - I got infected by it a while ago after a dodgy download, and it will take your whole system down to get it off your machine. But it is fixable. Investigate whether you're infected with SpySherrif ASAP, so you can attempt to remove it before it does anything more exotic...

EDIT: http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/files/cleandesktop.exe is the desktop clean you're looking for, if you want to try that before assuming it's anything else though


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Keo C
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Posted: 29th Oct 2007 22:09 Edited at: 29th Oct 2007 22:14
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David, that link is dead/no file there.


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Osiris
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Posted: 29th Oct 2007 22:40
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Yeah, thats the file thing I tried to download. Should I jsut tell him to get ad-aware and run a virus scan then?

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Keo C
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Posted: 29th Oct 2007 22:41
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Might as well. =/


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Osiris
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Posted: 29th Oct 2007 22:55
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Got it, it was a registry problem.

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Posted: 30th Oct 2007 01:56
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I'm opening up some champagne. Want some?


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Osiris
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Posted: 30th Oct 2007 02:18
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Yes. lol.

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