In cleaning up my desktop I have found an item that has no name; just the
numeric sequence designation.  I pressed enter on it and was asked what I
wanted to use to open it.  I backed out.  I happened to think that maybe I
could learn something from the context menu, mainly properties.  So I went
there and all it shows is read only with a checkbox, checked, I think;
hidden; archive.  Nothing else.  I went to other desktop items and did the
same thing and most, not all, had quite a bit more, target show thumbnail,
run with normal, minim, maximize.  I am very suspicious of this unnamed
desktop.  True, after reading someone's post I did go to jfwlite and
downloaded
a few programs, most of which went to a temp folder I think; have not had
time to unzip or whatever with them.  I am wondering if this could be some
sort of virus.  In the past ten days or less, I have had several reports of
viruses; three and four at a time a couple of days in a row.  Marion also
had something called quick update or something like that on his desktop that
he knew nothing about; he sent it to the recycle bin and that's what I think
I should do with this thing.  I have no other clue as to how I could find
out what it really is.  Any suggestions?


dory
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