Sometimes strange icons are from games.


Connie Chisum
Jayton-Girard ISD
206-237-2991  (206)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fran Bott" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:13 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Unidentified item on desktop


Yestersday I went to 2 different students houses for various reasons, and
both if them had the same thing on thier desktop. Both students run Win XP.

It is an unidentified icon, with a tilde (~) as the name with no file
extension. I opened one in wordpad and it was unreadable.

When I saw it on the second machine I ran SpBot Search and Destroy. While it
did remove some spyware, the icon remained. Virus definitions are up to
date.

I am hoping someone has seen this and might know what it is. I suspect some
type of spyware, but not having seen this before, I can not be sure.

Any Ideas?

Fran Bott


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