Summary: Once in awhile I find a strange icon on my desktop that has the Microsoft logo and a tilde ~ sign underneath. When I click on properties, it says its...
Summary: Hi, This morning I found 3 unfamiliar icons on my desktop belonging to: svchost, qq.exe and myd.exe. I checked the properties of the icons and found t...
Summary: I also had party poker icon on my desktop. I went into my system restore and restored my computer to 8 days ago right before this icon first appeared...
Summary: I have Windows XP and there are a couple files on my desktop I cannot move to another folder by cut, copy, paste, delete, drag nothing at all. I was w...
Summary: Hiya all first let me say thanks for all the info I got from this forum, I usually do not post that often but read and search and find my answers so t...
Summary: i keep on getting this icon on my desktop even after i format and reconfig my router . the icon has a ~ mark on it and when i look at its properties i...
Summary: Today an icon for one of those poker craps appeared on my desktop. I searched through and found other messages talking about the same thing and tried ...
Summary: Kids were on computer now I think I am loaded with spyware. Arkanoid.exe icon is now on my desktop. I have Hijack This installed and ran it but I do...
Summary: Hi, Quite often when I use Internet Explorer (IE) I find new link icons on my desktop and my links bar on IE. They are always links to things like ca...
Summary: My home page was recently changed and there are new icons on my desktop which I did not put there. I ran ad-aware and spybot, but tehy didn't find any...
Summary: Thank you for the suggestion MURVE! - ALAS! I downloaded f-prot and the latest definitions, but it did not detect the dialer (sys restore off) --- I w...
Summary: I have a problem where all the icons on my desktop are overlayed by the KaZaa icon. When I boot up, first it displays the right icons, then it overlay...
Summary: Is the icon a shortcut to something? Is it a folder? If it's a shortcut, to what executable does it point? You need to investigate a little bit. A...
Summary: im on windows xp,also not amazing with the technical areas of computing, help would be great folks my desktop and taskbar constatly click on and off, ...
Summary: Please post a Hijack This log so that the files associated with the virus/spyware/hijacker can be identified. Please download HJTsetup.exe from th...
Summary: I have the same problem, have no clue how it got there because I am very careful with this s---e, but anyway. Tried all of the above but no joy at all...
Summary: Hi, I have file that keeps being created on my deskop. I've reinstalled Windows ME from scractch for other reasons. The only things I installed on top...
Summary: Please post a Hijack This log so that the files associated with the virus/spyware/hijacker can be identified. Please download HJTsetup.exe from th...
Summary: I have seven Icons on my desktop, with names like "travel" "Casino Online" "Printer Cartridges" "Poker" etc. They will not delete. If I right click on...
Summary: After I first got onto msn I went into my favorites tried to load a page and it wouldn't load. So I tried a few other pages and I was having no luck g...
Summary: My computer won't start up/log on at all. I am using Windows XP home edition. I have tried booting in safe mode etc but it comes up with the same erro...
Summary: Thanks Ray Peate. Your comments were excellent, and solved the problem. I am so pleased to get rid of thoses pop-ups and icons on my desktop, I can ...
Summary: Please download SmitRemFix from this link http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php Then extract the contents to your desktop. If you have run optio...
Summary: My computer has always been slow and bogged down with spyware..it hasnt been bothering me but now is about time I take action. This morning, I logged ...
Summary: while i was online one night, winantispyware downloaded itself onto my computer and i was unable to stop it. ever since then, unusual things have star...
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