Computer Hacked? Changed Themes to Filthy Pictures

[HENRY DESTINY]

I got on computer this morning, Click on my home page.Then
a bunch of pictures appeared like a slide show. It wiped
out my Desktop themes and made itself the default theme.I
want to restore my themes- how? It also changed the names
of my hard drives - to gross to name it. Another thing it
did was add a message at top of any web page ("G*YSE* IS
GREAT".) How do I get that off?

[Joe727]

First off, you are on a broadband connection. Are you using a firewall like
the free version of Zone Alarm?

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

If you don't have a firewall, it's like not having doors on your home.

Your PC is also probably loaded with spyware.

There is an excellent article about spyware in PC Magazine:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,978170,00.asp

Their Editor's Choice is Spybot for spyware removal. It's free.

http://security.kolla.de/

Joe

"HENRY DESTINY" > wrote in message
...
> I got on computer this morning, Click on my home page.Then
> a bunch of pictures appeared like a slide show. It wiped
> out my Desktop themes and made itself the default theme.I
> want to restore my themes- how? It also changed the names
> of my hard drives - to gross to name it. Another thing it
> did was add a message at top of any web page ("G*YSE* IS
> GREAT".) How do I get that off?

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Well it certainly sounds like a hack, if not just something that was run on
the machine from a website. I would recommend using spyware removal and
detection tools on the machine, enabling the firewall and doing a good virus
scan on the machine.

--
Joseph W. Conway, MCSE
Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server Group

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Joe727" > wrote in message
...
> First off, you are on a broadband connection. Are you using a firewall
like
> the free version of Zone Alarm?
>
>
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp
>
> If you don't have a firewall, it's like not having doors on your home.
>
> Your PC is also probably loaded with spyware.
>
> There is an excellent article about spyware in PC Magazine:
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,978170,00.asp
>
> Their Editor's Choice is Spybot for spyware removal. It's free.
>
> http://security.kolla.de/
>
> Joe
>
> "HENRY DESTINY" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I got on computer this morning, Click on my home page.Then
> > a bunch of pictures appeared like a slide show. It wiped
> > out my Desktop themes and made itself the default theme.I
> > want to restore my themes- how? It also changed the names
> > of my hard drives - to gross to name it. Another thing it
> > did was add a message at top of any web page ("G*YSE* IS
> > GREAT".) How do I get that off?
>
>