Candy_girl
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Hello!
Last night I was downloading something off a file hosting site and I accidently clicked on an ad that popped up and then froze my computer, later I got an error message from my windows security centre (I used windows xp professional edition) said that "my computer is infected with a spyware "and that I have to click on that balloon so as to get rid of it! so it downloaded some program called "Bravesentry" that kept scanning my computer and got a result of like 65 infected objects in my registry! whenever I tried to get rid of it it kept opening again and again.
Then I closed the connection and the computer and when I came back I found that my desktop wallpaper is gone and all I have is the background color only! I tried to open windows task manager so as to see what's going on it was gone!
I paniced so I googled "How to fix the task manager" and it got me to this website that directed me to use the "group policy command via "Run" I got to finally understand what's going on , that the spyware disabled my desktop and my task manager so I enabled them again!
Everything went back to normal but this came up;
1- The Hightlights under the folder names , ironically that color is the color of the theme's background!
2- I tried to go back to the "group policy thingy" but the damn luck I was in the elecricity went off so when it came back , I opened it , it gave me this error message in the pic above!
My questions are;
1- How do I get rid of that highlight?
2- How to restore the group policy?
3- After the attack my connection is kinda slow, do you think it has something to do with it? I mean could the spyware still be there? if so, how do I get rid of it?
Knowing that I don't use a spyware porgram and my antivirus is AVG free edition!
I'm very sorry for being long but I have no one to ask!
Please respond asap.
Thank you very much.
Last night I was downloading something off a file hosting site and I accidently clicked on an ad that popped up and then froze my computer, later I got an error message from my windows security centre (I used windows xp professional edition) said that "my computer is infected with a spyware "and that I have to click on that balloon so as to get rid of it! so it downloaded some program called "Bravesentry" that kept scanning my computer and got a result of like 65 infected objects in my registry! whenever I tried to get rid of it it kept opening again and again.
Then I closed the connection and the computer and when I came back I found that my desktop wallpaper is gone and all I have is the background color only! I tried to open windows task manager so as to see what's going on it was gone!
I paniced so I googled "How to fix the task manager" and it got me to this website that directed me to use the "group policy command via "Run" I got to finally understand what's going on , that the spyware disabled my desktop and my task manager so I enabled them again!
Everything went back to normal but this came up;
1- The Hightlights under the folder names , ironically that color is the color of the theme's background!
2- I tried to go back to the "group policy thingy" but the damn luck I was in the elecricity went off so when it came back , I opened it , it gave me this error message in the pic above!
My questions are;
1- How do I get rid of that highlight?
2- How to restore the group policy?
3- After the attack my connection is kinda slow, do you think it has something to do with it? I mean could the spyware still be there? if so, how do I get rid of it?
Knowing that I don't use a spyware porgram and my antivirus is AVG free edition!
I'm very sorry for being long but I have no one to ask!
Please respond asap.
Thank you very much.