You might also want to run a free online virus scan since your VS program doesn't seem to have caught it.
http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_pcc.asp

Al Thompson

----- Original Message -----
From: "arhiam"
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] "Moving" Desktop Icons


> You almost certainly have one of the Magistr group of viruses. Below I have
> copied a paragraph from the Symantec site.
>
> If the computer has been infected for two months, then on odd days the
> desktop icons are repositioned whenever the mouse pointer approaches, giving
> the impression that the icons are "running away" from the mouse:
>
> Have a look here:
> http:[log in to unmask]
>
> Alan Hodges
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael "Max" Miller"
> Subject: [PCSOFT] "Moving" Desktop Icons
>
> > Looks like I may have a virus...
> >
> >    When I try to click on a desktop icon, they all start to move around!
> >    You can chase them all around the screen without landing on them! Virus
> >    scan is coming up with nothing.
> >
> >    Any Idea where to start?!?
> >
> >    Max

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