Please help me..., I'm really freaked out... |
 Apr 22 2005, 11:58 PM
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Is there any virus that you can have that allows the sender to change the background of your computer or anything else about your computer?
Because my background's been changed to the picture that this guy I know is related to...who has never had any access to my computer before...and I'm a little scared... There was a virus thing on his site, he said, and I clicked on it because I thought it was a joke... I'm doing a virus check right now.... |
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Apr 23 2005, 04:07 AM
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 boo Group: Member Posts: 5,512 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 71,765 |
Maybe you got hacked.
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Apr 23 2005, 02:48 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Designer Posts: 4,591 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 77,305 |
Make sure you have no Spyware or maybe you got hacked.
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Apr 23 2005, 03:38 PM
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 ilikeyouSofreakingmuch. Group: Member Posts: 2,014 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 643 |
i'm guessing you got hacked .. eh, dont know how to help, sorry.
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Apr 23 2005, 06:22 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 893 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 68,217 |
Oh...thanks. :)
Uh...how exactly does one get hacked? Is it through a virus or something? Oh, btw, the virusscan showed up 4 viruses, all of which I deleted, but I'm not sure whether I'm safe or not... 
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Apr 23 2005, 08:55 PM
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 I'll never be who I was again.. Group: Member Posts: 2,886 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 77,981 |
i think ur comp is ok now..since u deleted the files that were infected..hopefully it didnt spread...
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Apr 24 2005, 12:59 PM
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 =] Group: Member Posts: 712 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 15,626 |
I think your computer is fine... I don't know if a virus changed your wallpaper or not, but now that the viruses are gone, I wouldn't worry.
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Apr 24 2005, 09:41 PM
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 Jimmay Group: Member Posts: 15 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 25,224 |
Oh my god... Are you serious?
 You either have a trojan (Allows the person who gave you virus access to your computer), or the link you clicked set your wallpaper to whatever it is. |
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Apr 24 2005, 09:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 893 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 68,217 |
Thanks, guys.
It's fixed now. :) |
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Apr 24 2005, 10:01 PM
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Jimmay Group: Member Posts: 15 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 25,224 |
Np.
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Apr 25 2005, 03:39 AM
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Don't close this yet, I had a similar problem, and I deleted the viruses and now I still can't get my normal background, it was a trojan and has been deleted, and when I go to my desktop properties, I can only change the screen saver and the reolution, someone plz help with this...
oh yeah my OS is Windows XP Professional |
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Apr 25 2005, 12:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 893 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 68,217 |
Oh...sorry...can't help you with that...mine was a different sort of thing; the virus just changed the background once, and I just switched it back and did a virusscan...
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Apr 25 2005, 12:19 PM
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Reason number one Windows sucks: No Security At All.
let me guess kryzcoak47luv666 Your regedit dont work either? Try it by clicking STart, Run, regedit and enter. if it works your fine. oh and also go to any image on the internet, and right click on it and click Set As Wallpaper (firefox) or i forget the words of it in IE see if it changes, |
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Apr 25 2005, 11:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 349 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 124,513 |
QUOTE(JC4P @ Apr 25 2005, 12:19 PM) Reason number one Windows sucks: No Security At All. let me guess kryzcoak47luv666 Your regedit dont work either? Try it by clicking STart, Run, regedit and enter. if it works your fine. oh and also go to any image on the internet, and right click on it and click Set As Wallpaper (firefox) or i forget the words of it in IE see if it changes,  Ok regedit works, but I still can't do it, and I've tried setting pictures in my pictures folder as my desktop background and that didn't work, I've tried almost everything I can think of! If this helps any in safe mode I can change the desktop/theme/picture, plz helpsies! |
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