yes, virus!

[Guest]

My desktop icons are changing arbitrarily.
IE is now the classic "e" but the infill is the MS OL icon.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

it may not be a virus - that happens when the icon cache is corrupt. Have
you rebooted recently? Did you open any of the attachments you received by
email?

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Diane. Yes. Yes.

Avast! discovered and eradicated something called Win32:kuang2. And here
I've been blaming my cable company for my slow i-net access - now I'm blazing
again, with accurate icons, quickly opening OL, and all.

But listen - I am very interested in what you suggested about the icon
cache. Please elaborate. Thanks.

As an MVP, do you knolw what happened to the "Was this post helpful" check?
I don't see it any more.

it may not be a virus - that happens when the icon cache is corrupt. Have
you rebooted recently? Did you open any of the attachments you received by
email?

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My desktop icons are changing arbitrarily.
IE is now the classic "e" but the infill is the MS OL icon.

 

[Christian Goeller]

stephanie, you wrote on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:19:02 -0800:

But listen - I am very interested in what you suggested about the icon
cache. Please elaborate. Thanks.

"Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/132668/en-us