Weird random program icon changes
Hi,
My program icons are turning into Swiss cheese. I'm not kidding. I foolishly tried opening a game crack that I downloaded with Kazaa. It's icon was a wedge of Swiss cheese. It wouldn't open, which didn't concern me very much, but now about a third of the programs on my computer, apparently at random, have this same wedge of Swiss cheese for an icon. It's annoying enough as it is but it makes me worry there's something wrong worse than annoying icon changes. I've run Ad-aware and Spyware, but they didn't find anything more than the usual cookies, and I did a virus scan with Norton Utilities that came up with nothing. I learned of something called TweakIU which supposedly restores icons, but that didn't change anything.
Some of these programs seem to be OK, but when I open Word I get a message saying that ScanMgr.dll is missing, and when I open Dell Musicmatch, I get a message saying it can't load the equalize.dll. Both programs seem to work normally despite these error messages.
Thanks for any help.
My program icons are turning into Swiss cheese. I'm not kidding. I foolishly tried opening a game crack that I downloaded with Kazaa. It's icon was a wedge of Swiss cheese. It wouldn't open, which didn't concern me very much, but now about a third of the programs on my computer, apparently at random, have this same wedge of Swiss cheese for an icon. It's annoying enough as it is but it makes me worry there's something wrong worse than annoying icon changes. I've run Ad-aware and Spyware, but they didn't find anything more than the usual cookies, and I did a virus scan with Norton Utilities that came up with nothing. I learned of something called TweakIU which supposedly restores icons, but that didn't change anything.
Some of these programs seem to be OK, but when I open Word I get a message saying that ScanMgr.dll is missing, and when I open Dell Musicmatch, I get a message saying it can't load the equalize.dll. Both programs seem to work normally despite these error messages.
Thanks for any help.
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I would look for a trojan, and NAV 2003 or back does not check for many trojans at all-- Symantec has been talking about retrofitting back to 2003 soem trojan detection, but has not done so except for enterprise versions of NAV yet. The Command AV remote scanner, a trial F-Prot, etc, may have what you need, both are very heavy in trojan ans worm and bot detection.
The overall pattern you are seeing is indeed a very good clue that the system has probably been security compromized, with something that NAV is not checking for. And in this case, I would look for a local worm plus the trojan or bot or I-Net worm (non-local worm) that let the local worm onto your computer by downloading it. If you can tell me what F-Prot finds down to file level and viral or malware ID, I can get detailed removal info for what it finds if I do not already know for what it finds. I use it a LOT.