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by: dllfb May 1, 2005 7:50 PM PDT

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undesirable desktop icons keep appearing

by dllfb - 5/1/05 7:50 PM

I have a couple of undesirable desktop icons that keep appearing after my delete, delete, delete throughout action and innumerable runs of spybot and adware....are there any suggestions as to how to get rid of these pests?


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virus maybe?

by GMartin2R - 5/1/05 11:57 PM

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what are you running for a virus scanner?


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You might be right

by Steven Haninger - 5/2/05 4:35 PM

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The "nimda" virus was good at that.


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(NT) (NT) nimbda?

by dllfb - 5/3/05 6:50 PM

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re nimda...

by GMartin2R - 5/3/05 11:34 PM

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here's what all trend micro's got on it...

http://www.trendmicro.com/search/google/en-us/results.asp?lr=lang_en-us&q=nimda

low probability of infection but high damage potential... i would expect norton would have caught it though, least given the most current definitions.


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Norton

by dllfb - 5/3/05 6:48 PM

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I am running norton


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Undesirable Icons

by phattdaddy - 5/2/05 1:10 PM

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The normal method of removal is to click on the icon to open it, then follow the instruction to uninstall.


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What icons ?

by Papa Echo - 5/4/05 3:06 AM

In Reply to: undesirable desktop icons keep appearing by dllfb

Are they shortcut icons (with the arrow) ? Right click>properties. What is in the "traget" box ? The "start in" box ? Or are they program icons ? Do you know what programs they represent ?


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