I visited a site which reviewed spyware, and whilst there I got a virus warning on
my laptop. My wallpaper has disappeared and is replaced by a blue screen with a
"your computer appears to be infected ..." message. I cannot change this as the
right mouse click is partially disabled. My anti-virus (Norton) and Adaware found
10-12 viruses and spyware most of which were cleaned out. I need to sit in front
of customers with this laptop and I don't want this damned message on my desk top.
Please help! Thanks
PS - I can post a log of hijack this if it helps.
PPS - now have got rid of hijackers wallpaper but still cannot reset wallpapers as right mouse click still disabled.

Perhaps one these will help?
cwshredder (it's out there on the www). ccleaner (from ccleaner.com).

Also the M$ Beta (anti-spyware/pest) util may help get rid of it?

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

and also note the comments re' the util at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2005/01/06/347804.aspx

You're using IE6 (default version for XP?) so there should be no problem running the M$ util; apparently it isn't available for IE5x.

Once you are "clean" install (and keep upto date) AdAware and Spybot; also maintain your anti-virus util upto date (which almost certainly you are...), and the M$ Beta util.

Also check comments in post-2 (Rambler) at:

http://www.computing.net/windows2000/wwwboard/forum/61907.html

reactivate active desktop, see if you can change wallpaper. If not-- go to run type sfc /scannow with your XP disc in the cd rom drive.

I had the same problem. first problem i had was the Desktop tab was not showing up in my Display Properties. to fix this i used REGEDIT. to fix this do the following

Go to Run --> regedit
Then go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Look for the entries NoDispAppearancePage and noDispBackgroundPage. If they have 1 as their values, set them to 0.

then restart the computer. this gave me back the Desktop tab. but it wouldn't allow me to change the wallpaper. to correct this problem. i started in safe mode and loged in as the Administrator, and navagated back to (Using REGEDIT) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and deleted the entry that had the current walpaper file. and then deleted the wallpaper picture that was being used for the wallpaper from the computer. when i restarted both problems were fixed. hope this helps

Wolf68,
thanks so much. It worked !!!!!