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Old April 21st, 2008, 02:12 AM
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Hi,

My computer background has turned into a red nucler hazard sign after some trojens and worms came into my system. i am using virgin broadband firewall and anti virus but it doesnt seem to be working. i did scan the computer and delete the worms but the background still hasnt changed and know it wont allow me to conect to the internet. can anyone help.

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Moved to Antivirus from Security.

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Look into the virus "Spit Fraud". It has the background-changing symptom and seems to be in full bloom these days.
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Do you have a way to download and transfer programs to this infected computer???
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