Little Help Please

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    Feenix

    Feenix Well I Do

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    Need a little help here. Basically my computer got infected with some Spyware after one of those nasty script prompt scripts downloaded them straight onto my computer. I've run Norton, MS Anti-Spyware, AVG, Ad-Aware... Suffice to say the Spyware is gone, or should be. But what I still have is this:
    http://img319.imageshack.us/img319/8830/spyware2hb.jpg

    That desktop image will not go away... at all.
    Anybody know how to get rid of it? And ferchristsake don't tell me to set something as the wallpaper cause that's the first thing I tried.

    I apprechiate any help you can give.
     
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    LProx4life

    LProx4life Well-Known Member

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    Well Maybe You can Try going to user account and clicking on Change the computer theme :D.
     
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    Neil

    Neil Super Duper Member LPA Super Member

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    Right click on desktop>>properties>>desktop tab>> choose something different.
     
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    Feenix

    Feenix Well I Do

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    That was pretty much the first thing I tried. What I get is this:-

    http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/7435/desktop7hh.jpg

    The box is locked and it wont let me change the desktop background. Although what I have managed to do now is track down the file that gave me the first background:-

    http://img319.imageshack.us/img319/8830/spyware2hb.jpg

    So what i'm left with now is a plain coloured background. Which I can live with, only if I hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete, my desktop image is there. The original one before the Spyware warning. So it seems as if what's happening is that the desktop is layering over the top of the actual desktop image. What i'm thinking is that some script edited an system file somewhere and stuck something in. I have checked every boot file and they're clean. So it seems pretty unlikely i'm gonna be able to track this down cause none of my spyware or virus programs are detecting anything.
     
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    Neil

    Neil Super Duper Member LPA Super Member

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    Open a picture in preview and right click>>set as background.
     
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    Feenix

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    As i said, that's the first thing I tried. What happens is that the picture becomes the desktop image, but is not visible on the desktop because something else is being put over the top of it thanks to this script. The only time I can view the image I set is when I log on or off or hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

    Just don't worry about it I can live with it like this. Thanks anyway.
     
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    JJ

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    something like that has happened at work - i dont have a clue how to fix it... sorry
     
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    Anthony.

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    Seems like a faulty registry key - the one that can enable or disable switching backgrounds.
     

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