I cant change the screensaver cos the tab is missing when you go to display. Can you download a trial version of Mcafee ( what is the .DAT about )

Zone alarm was always good enough on my laptop. Maybe it is time to tell mother to try something different.

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go with AVG, mcaffee is almost as shit as norton.

Mcaffe online scan has so far found 3 files with this in it

VBS/FakeAlert-AB

Now just have to get rid of the little F&^KERS.

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.DAT are the extensions for the virus definitions, If you have McAfee do an auto-update or manually download and update, sounds like you got the machine cleaned anyway ?

had this same problem at work today
used this http://www.superantispyware.com/
worked a treat.

I don't know if you read what I wrote, but if you click start you will see xp antivirus installed. It is a virus. It is malware.

Download malware bytes, it will clean most of it up.

Go to c:\windows\system32 and see if there is anything called display in there, that is why you can't change the screensaver because the virus deleted / renamed it

Also if you hit CTRL+SHIFT+ESC you will probably see .exe files running in the process like

xncdkrjt.exe and
pexjehrr.exe etc..