Honest, I didn't do it.

My command prompt morphed into the head of a black cartoon bear with a red
nose and smile.

If I looked at properties, change icon it though it was still the normal
c:\... on black and there was no bear's head in the list.

When I searched for *.ico to track down the bear it disappeared and my
command prompt returned to normal. The search yielded no bears head .ico
file that I could spot in a visual scan.

Anybody ever heard of this bizzarity? Cheeky virus? Easter Egg? ...?

I run the ZoneAlarm firewall and use Norton antivirus on my win2k vaio.

Replies appreciated, even amused ones.

John

From: "John" <(E-Mail Removed)>

| Honest, I didn't do it.
|
| My command prompt morphed into the head of a black cartoon bear with a red
| nose and smile.
|
| If I looked at properties, change icon it though it was still the normal
| c:\... on black and there was no bear's head in the list.
|
| When I searched for *.ico to track down the bear it disappeared and my
| command prompt returned to normal. The search yielded no bears head .ico
| file that I could spot in a visual scan.
|
| Anybody ever heard of this bizzarity? Cheeky virus? Easter Egg? ...?
|
| I run the ZoneAlarm firewall and use Norton antivirus on my win2k vaio.
|
| Replies appreciated, even amused ones.
|
| John

Doesn't sound like malware. Sounds like a temporary mis-assignment of the Icon.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
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