I have several icons on my desktop which i cannot delete. They are casino
onlin, travel, card games, poker,bingo. I don't know which task or
application is producing them. I am using macafee security centre and use
internet exploper as my browser. I want to remove these from my desktop and
stop them re-appearing. Any suggestions woill be greatly appreciated.
I saw that once on a computer used by a bunch of students at the
college where I taught. Correct me if I'm wrong: if you right-click
on one, nothing happens, right? Somehow (I'm not sure how) those
gaming programs installed an image (not a shortcut icon) to your
desktop, and they're sensitive to a double-left-click in that area.
It's nine months since I cleaned them off, but IIRC you need to run
MSCONFIG and look carefully at every single automatically started
item. When you find the suspicious one(s), untick it/them. After
you've finished that, reboot the computer and you should no longer
see those icons.
Now you need to actually uninstall the programs. Go back to MSCONFIG,
find the directories those programs ran from, and delete the
directories. (If you want, zip them up rather than simply deleting
them, just in case you're wrong.) Then go to the Registry and search
for all references to those directories, and delete the keys/values.
That's what I did, as best as I can recall. It's possible a spyware
remover would remove them, but I didn't have one available and the
system wasn't connected to the Internet at the time.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's
game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be
indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds
possessing infinite amounts of free time."
-- Neil Stephenson, /Cryptonomicon/
