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re: I've been taken over by Virus Alert Friday, March 17, 2006 at 7:53 am Posted by Bill (90 messages posted) Seems like I heard about this program on the Kim Komando site, sends out false positives to get you to buy it. If memory serves, you need to turn off, or better yet remove Windows Messenger. Start-Control Panel-Add/Remove Programs-to the left Add or Remove windows Componets---scroll down and uncheck windows messenger---click next----hope that does the trick. Bill On Friday, March 17, 2006 at 6:19 am, E.Levin wrote: >The virus alert button keeps flashing and a message comes up that says my computer >is infected. It wants to sell me a system called Spy Falcon. It will not allow me >to bring up Internet Explorer or anything else. I currently have Norton Anti-Virus, >AVG,Ad-Aware SE and Windows Defender. I have run all of these and they come back >clean. PLEASE HELP. This Spy Falcon has taken over my computer. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: I've been taken over by Virus Alert Friday, March 17, 2006 at 11:08 am Posted by jcw (5124 messages posted) Remove SpyFalcon and dxmpp.dll: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic43659.html On Friday, March 17, 2006 at 6:19 am, E.Levin wrote: >The virus alert button keeps flashing and a message comes up that says my computer >is infected. It wants to sell me a system called Spy Falcon. It will not allow me >to bring up Internet Explorer or anything else. I currently have Norton Anti-Virus, >AVG,Ad-Aware SE and Windows Defender. I have run all of these and they come back >clean. PLEASE HELP. This Spy Falcon has taken over my computer. [Reply or follow-up to this message] That won't do the trick. (eom) Friday, March 17, 2006 at 11:10 am Posted by jcw (5124 messages posted) . On Friday, March 17, 2006 at 7:53 am, Bill wrote: >Seems like I heard about this program on the Kim Komando site, sends out false positives >to get you to buy it. If memory serves, you need to turn off, or better yet remove >Windows Messenger. Start-Control Panel-Add/Remove Programs-to the left Add or >Remove windows Componets---scroll down and uncheck windows messenger---click next----hope >that does the trick. >Bill > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Spy Falcon Personal help Friday, March 17, 2006 at 10:46 pm Posted by SpiritWind (575 messages posted) If you would like someone to personally guide you in the process of completely removing Spy Falcon from your computer, ask the Ad-Aware Experts on the forums at www.landzdown.com . [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: I've been taken over by Virus Alert Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 6:20 am Posted by Jim Hickman (1 messages posted) I was hit with this virus, as well. I was able to get the virus out but have somehow lost control of my desktop background. In Display/Properties on the Destop tab, all the background image files appear but they are "grayed" out and you cannot select any of them. The desktop background is white and I have not found a way to change it. On Friday, March 17, 2006 at 6:19 am, E.Levin wrote: >The virus alert button keeps flashing and a message comes up that says my computer >is infected. It wants to sell me a system called Spy Falcon. It will not allow me >to bring up Internet Explorer or anything else. I currently have Norton Anti-Virus, >AVG,Ad-Aware SE and Windows Defender. I have run all of these and they come back >clean. PLEASE HELP. This Spy Falcon has taken over my computer. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum