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Strange Graphics on Desktop Icons
Name: C_H Date: December 4, 2003 at 18:29:30 Pacific OS: Windows Me CPU/Ram: Pentium 488
Comment:
I have a minor problem with my desktop icons. I'm not sure how, but after exiting out of my Kazaa media desktop and windows media player (because both froze) I noticed these strange graphics overlapping some of my desktop icons. The graphic is a coloured box (red, blue, yellow, green)with what looks like a note pad behind it. I tried refreshing my desktop and restarting my computer, but there are still there. The graphics are harmless because my icons are still functional, but I still want to know how to get rid of them and how they got there in the first place. Much appreciation and thanks for any help.
Name: wawadave Date: December 4, 2003 at 21:04:18 Pacific
Reply:
try these scans free trojin scan http://www.trojanscan.com/trojanscan panda scan http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/ housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp nrav av http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ virus scan http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php avast cleaning tool http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html mcafee avert stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ scans for open trojin ports http://scan.sygate.com/pretrojanscan.html test my sheilds grc https://nanoprobe.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 dsl port scan http://www.dslreports.com/scan pest patrol scan mediocre http://www.pestscan.com/Scan.asp
it might allso be your shell icon cache needs to be deleted and computer rebooted. but since you said kazaa virus more likely.
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Response Number 2
Name: artkitt99 Date: December 5, 2003 at 04:50:45 Pacific
Reply:
Something like that happened to me before. Try to go under your Display properties. Right click, Click under Properties Look for EFFECTS and click on it Then Click on Default Icons, then apply and OK. If you have any questions email me artkitt99@aol.com
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Response Number 3
Name: TheKid Date: December 5, 2003 at 17:21:18 Pacific
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