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    Icons keep changing!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by p1990, Jan 28, 2009.

  1. p1990

    p1990 Notebook Evangelist

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    :mad: I have Vista home premium 32. Desktop icons keep changing,i.e for eg. Yahoo Messenger's "smiley" icon changed into the default harddrive icon...etc.Whats the possible reason? Any virus?...In general desktop shortcut icons are changing into OS related icons.
     
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    sounds like a virus
     
    yourself3082, Jan 28, 2009
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  3. p1990

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    But I ran AVG 3 times and it reports everything fine! Also I have just discovered the FSX icon changed into the FIFA09 icon!!! :(
     
    p1990, Jan 28, 2009
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    i would agree... sounds like a virus. if you can get a hold of trend micro and run it "dos" mode, it may pick up something that AVG isn't. you could have a worm in there as well.
     
    Gruven98, Jan 28, 2009
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    download the nod32 trial and run that, i'd also get malwarebytes and superantispyware.
     
    Carrot Muncher, Jan 28, 2009
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    I had a similar issue on my Vista Home Premium 64 -- (running IE7 and then IE8Beta). Amazingly, when I upgraded to IE8-RC1 the issue disappeared and all icons are remaining the same. :D I like to customize my desktop icons, and they kept reverting back to some kind of generic icon after clicking on them -- but no more. So far, for the last several days, they've remained stable.
     
    Imperfect1, Jan 29, 2009
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