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Displaying Virus Alert wallpaper in windows xp
Posted: 2010-03-31 02:03am
by aphanri
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In my laptop virus alert wallpaper is displaying and System security 2009 automatically installed. System security 2009 showing that my laptop is infected with virus it ask me to scan after scan it showing many viruses. when i try to clean all virus it ask me to activate the system security 2009.
I am using Mcafee virus scan it has catched some Fake Trojan virus . Now macfee also infected onaccess scan has been disabled automatically.
Re: Displaying Virus Alert wallpaper in windows xp
Posted: 2010-03-31 02:22am
by Edi
Just nuke and reinstall your machine, it's the easiest way to fix that.
Re: Displaying Virus Alert wallpaper in windows xp
Posted: 2010-03-31 04:00am
by Zac Naloen
Alternatively if you don't have any easy backup boot into safe mode with networking, download malware bytes, download all updates and run a full scan.
fixes it in a few hours.
Re: Displaying Virus Alert wallpaper in windows xp
Posted: 2010-03-31 05:13am
by adamalexandru
If you get infected recently there is one more option and that is System restore. Just remember when you get infected and restore back to that date. After restore complete don't restart your computer and scan for viruses with updated antivirus.
Re: Displaying Virus Alert wallpaper in windows xp
Posted: 2010-03-31 05:40am
by atg
Zac Naloen wrote:Alternatively if you don't have any easy backup boot into safe mode with networking, download malware bytes, download all updates and run a full scan.
fixes it in a few hours.
I've come accross a few varients of this, one occurance couldn't be fixed with Malwarebytes. However they may have an update for it since then. Of course the only way to be completely sure is to nuke & reinstall as Edi suggested.
Re: Displaying Virus Alert wallpaper in windows xp
Posted: 2010-03-31 05:47am
by Zac Naloen
The only varient it couldn't fix was the 2010 version of the virus last I encountered it, and that was because it trashes userinit so you can't log in as anyone.