Warning Spyware threat detected! System Error 1752

[textmum]

Does anyone know what this is, my daughters laptop desktop background has turned into this giving two links, we have not touched either. We have anti virus and a firewall, are we at risk, can we just restart the computer? Is it a trojan or something?

[dodgyshirt]

Found the following advice via google:-

From your control panel, you will need to uninstall the sysware program that has installed itself. After you remove the program, do not restart your computer, it will tell you that you need to restart, but don't. After uninstalling, go to your toolbar and choose internet options, click on the security tab, then click on the red restricted sites and click custom. From the drop down menua, choose the sys installer link that has attached itself to your computer. Add that link to the restricted site. Click ok, apply, and okay again. Now you restart your computer and shouldn't have that problem with unwanted software installing itself from that website. This same thing applies to other websites that try to install their software on your system. I hope this helps you.

[textmum]

Thank you, she is just going thorugh some advice from short media.com where we found a link, we dont know what trojan it is. Then she is going to follow what you have posted just to check it is alright.

[jimwhat]

I have just had the same problem. Tried to follow dodgy shirt's advice but it did not go quite as expected. Seem to have fixed as follows: Via control panel, uninstalled a program called desktop (unlike the other programs this one gave no information about itself, so I guessed it was bogus). This cleared the desktop appearance. I then tried the internet options thing, but could not follow this through as I do not have a tab called 'custom' I only have 'custom level' or 'sites'. The latter seemed more appropriate, but without knowing what site the problem came from I could not do anything else on this. Having next restarted the pc, I still had a red exclamation mark symbol in lower rh corner of screen. Right clicked on this and chose 'uninstall'. Now everything seems to be back to normal for me. I have Norton antivirus and am suprised this got past.

[textmum]

We found help here http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44211

The virus is a trojan usually referred to as the Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.c.

[tiamats]

I had the same problem, and followed jimwhat's advice to remove the "desktop" thing, and it's back to my original desktop now. I'm going to continue with dodgyshirt's advice and I'll repost with updates.

I have McAfee virus protection, and this virus got past the scan 3 times.