My initial opening desktop has been changed. I have managed to trace the problem to a file: C:\WINDOWS\screen.html
I can alter the attributes in notepad, and for the duration of the session, you can see some changes in the display but can't get to the original desktop display. Also in the Icon tray there are 2 icons that are red circles, 1 with the! and the 2nd has an X on it. When you hoover over each 1 the message "Your computer is infected!" displays. Seems like the original code for the desktop has been altered. Here is the modified code from screen.html. I changed the onclick to onchange to try to close the page. This didn't work. I also changed the size of the tables to see what effect this would have. It changed the tables but I still could not reach the default desktop. I also changed the background-color to transparent to try and see what was under neith but all that showed was a white background. Here is the code:
</html><style>td {font: 14px Arial; color: white}</style><body
bgcolor=transparent><table width=10% height=10%><td
align="center"><table
onchange="window.close('http://www.antivirus-gold.com/?wm=&swm=
');" style="cursor:hand" width=10 height=10 cellpadding=0
cellspacing=0 style="border:none dashed gray"><tr><td
bgcolor=black valign="top"><table width=10><tr><td width=10
rowspan=2><td><span style="font: bold 4px Arial; color:
yellow;">WARNING!</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font:
bold 4px Arial; color: white;">YOU'RE IN
DANGER!</span></td></tr></table>
<div
style="padding:0"><strong>ALL YOU DO WITH COMPUTER IS STORED
FOREVER IN YOUR HARD DISK. WHEN YOU VISIT SITES, SEND EMAILS...
ALL YOUR ACTIONS ARE LOGGED. AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REMOVE
THEM WITH STANDARD TOOLS. YOUR DATA IS STILL AVAILABLE FOR
FORENSICS. AND IN SOME CASES FOR YOUR BOSS, YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR
WIFE, YOUR CHILDREN.</strong>
Every site you or somebody
or even something, like spyware, opened in your browser, with
all images, and all downloaded and maybe later removed movies
or mp3 songs - ARE STILL THERE and
could broke your life!
<p style="font: bold 4px Arial;
color: yellow; margin-left:5">SECURE YOURSELF RIGHT
NOW!
REMOVE ALL SPYWARE FROM YOUR
PC!</p></div></td></tr><tr><td><table width="10%"
bgcolor="gray" cellpadding="0"><td align=center>onclick="return false" style="color:black">Removal instructions
</td></table></td></table></td></table></body><
/html>
Does anyone have any idea of what I need to do? I'm a student and I'm afraid of sending information across the web for classes.
EWSteele
