Am I owned?

[keda]

Each time I reboot my desktop is entirely filled with dozens of font icons, and sometimes overlapping to off the desktop. When I delete them, sometimes they reappear.

Virus checks come back clean.

Am I owned?

[dirtydog]

Probably I will upload trojan remover for you.

[stroller]

You shouldn't browse these Russian ultra extreme sites, mate, that's what happens.

[attaboy]

If it looks like this I'd suspect the gf of accessorizing.

[keda]

They look like font file icons, I didn't have the foresight to write some down so will find out next time I reboot. Each icon is named "copy of xxxxx"....Ok, as I was typing this idea came to me, checked my Doc&Settings/Deskpot and there they were, more than 200 files that didn't belong, not just font but also IE urls I had visited, dunno how they got there but they're well shredded and back to squared one but a bit more confident for the next reboot...just hope whatever it was doesn't restore them from a safehouse. Dammit can't wait, am going to reboot now.

[keda]

Ok, the bulk of them are gone, just a few stragglers (not 'copy of...') that are np but can be worked on. Wondering how it happened though.


Many tx, and hope they stay gone.

[Marmite the Dog]

You didn't have two different Anti-virus packages installed did you?

[keda]

Yes but never both running at the same time...also noticed cannot access my IE homepage though I can with Firefox, and strangely enough vice versa.

[Marmite the Dog]

Yes but never both running at the same time...also noticed cannot access my IE homepage though I can with Firefox, and strangely enough vice versa.

Sometimes they run even when you think they're not. Remove one of them.

[keda]

Running smooth now, but done anyway seeing as one of them is almost never used anyway.