u know its interesting that SW may be the cause of my virus too. Ever since i joined it i have this background show up that says something like Warning spy-ware has been detected or something like that. I cant get it to go back to my normal background so i have just left it. idk if its a virus but i am sorta convinced it is and that is COULD be SW...
Hi, If its a blue background and when you go into Display the tabs for Screen Saver and Desktop are gone, it's the virus called Joke-Bluescreen.c It puts three different files on your computer, .exe .scr and .jpg or something like jpg.
To remove it:
if possible, write down what your virus checker is saying
its name/location is. Example; I have McAfee and the window popped-up saying something like Virus Detected "Name: Joke-Bluescreen.c , Location: C:\WINDOWS\System32\
blphc5hpj0e39n.scr " the underlined part is the virus, the name tends to vary between infected computers, but it usually looks something like that. Give or take the numbers.
Now if you don't have a virus checker ( I recommend getting one now!) or your virus checker isn't popping up you can try to restart your computer to get it to pop up, or just follow my instructions deleting anything that looks similar to the virus name I put down (the virus name is usually all letters with one or two numbers, and ends in .exe .scr and .jpg or something like it)
Okay, well if your virus checker popped up the name/location great! Write it down, and if it didnt go on guessing from here on out and doing what I say.
1. Open Task Manager and go to the Processes tab scroll through the names and look for one that is a
long line of jumbled number,letters, letters/numbers, or anything that resembles the name Joke-Bluescreen.c (And if your not sure if what you're deleting is a program, go to yahoo.com and search 'what is' then the name of the program).
2. go
here and download the script showalldisplaytabs-xp.vbs
to get your Display tabs back. The download sould be right under the word Attachments. It's safe, no virus.
3. Now go into the recently restored Desktop tab, and again look through the names for one thats all numbers, letters, letters/numbers, that says joke-bluescreen or something like it, Or the image previews for the blue screen image.
4. Now once you've found it write it down and go to Start, Search , All Files and Folders, type in the name you got from Display in "All Or Part Of The File Name" then search it, once it finds it hit delete.
5. If the virus checker gave you the name of the virus search that out too, deleting anything it brings up with that name. Do four searches with the virus name ending in exe, jpeg or jpg, and scr If it finds anything with the name, delete it.
Now go back into Display, and Desktop tab and check to see if the virus image/name is gone, if its not or only the image in the middle of the blue screen is gone, change your background to something else, save, exit display, wait 2 minutes and go back in. It sould be gone! hope that works any questions messege me
angelx689@yahoo.com.
Also delete antivirus 2008 if you see it, it is also installed with Joke-Bluescreen.c sometimes.