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re: Warning! Spyware Detected
Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 7:59 pm
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Posted by appleoddity (876 messages posted)


It's not McAfee trying to sell you stuff.. You most likely are infected.. McAfee is just not a good program for scanning with. :) Not to mention that once your computer is infected, nothing can be trusted, including your anti-virus software as it is very easy to defeat. What you are seeing on the desktop is called an active desktop.. You can try to turn it off, but if the computer is infected it will just pop back up. Go into control panel -> display and click the desktop tab..Click 'customize desktop' and then the 'web' tab.. In there you can delete the malicious desktop. For best results, everything should be unchecked in that window. Other then that, you should definitely be concerned as there is like a 99% chance that you ARE infected.. :)




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Warning! Spyware Detected (Janet: Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 7:28 pm)

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-Warning! Spyware Detected (Janet: Thu, May 8, 2008, 7:28 pm)
*re: Warning! Spyware Detected (appleoddity: Thu, May 8, 2008, 7:59 pm)
*re: Warning! Spyware Detected (MartinM: Fri, May 9, 2008, 12:44 am)
*re: Warning! Spyware Detected (MrCharlie: Fri, May 9, 2008, 4:16 am)
-re: Warning! Spyware Detected (Sebastian: Fri, May 9, 2008, 6:37 am)
*re: Warning! Spyware Detected (MrCharlie: Fri, May 9, 2008, 8:54 am)
*re: Warning! Spyware Detected (Quasimodo: Fri, May 9, 2008, 10:42 am)
-re: Warning! Spyware Detected (Camlawnman: Fri, May 9, 2008, 12:56 pm)
*re: Warning! Spyware Detected (appleoddity: Fri, May 9, 2008, 3:01 pm)
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