Wallpaper Changed And Disabled

Hi. This is my first time writing in here because I have never had anything
this severe happen to me before. To begin I do have and always have had
running Microsoft AntiSpyware and AVG AntiVirus. So it suprised me how this
problem occured. Here's how it begins. I leave my computer on over night with
active internet connection downloading the Battlefield 2 demo :) I wake up
next morning to check the game out only to find my wallpaper has been changed
to "System Stopped" and some annoying antispyware program that keeps popping
up called "SpySherriff" that I never downloaded before in my life. The really
mest up part is that when I try to change my wallpaper back to normal going
under Display Properties and Desktop everything is all grayed out and I can't
change or click anything. I ran virus checks and spyware checks with my
programs. But found nothing! If you guys have any help to offer please please
please let me know. Thanks.

Galen
Mon Jun 20 15:05:15 CDT 2005

In news:2A15F817-4396-481D-917B-EB8F9DF7675F@microsoft.com,
Incarnadine <Incarnadine@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Hi. This is my first time writing in here because I have never had
> anything this severe happen to me before. To begin I do have and
> always have had running Microsoft AntiSpyware and AVG AntiVirus. So
> it suprised me how this problem occured. Here's how it begins. I
> leave my computer on over night with active internet connection
> downloading the Battlefield 2 demo :) I wake up next morning to check
> the game out only to find my wallpaper has been changed to "System
> Stopped" and some annoying antispyware program that keeps popping up
> called "SpySherriff" that I never downloaded before in my life. The
> really mest up part is that when I try to change my wallpaper back to
> normal going under Display Properties and Desktop everything is all
> grayed out and I can't change or click anything. I ran virus checks
> and spyware checks with my programs. But found nothing! If you guys
> have any help to offer please please please let me know. Thanks.


Windows XP?

Restore All Display Tabs:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/restorealldisplaytabs.reg

For your other problem with malware:

Malware Cleaning :
http://www.kgiii.info/windows/all/general/malwarefix.html

Galen
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