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 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.528 / Virus Database: 324 - Release Date: 10/16/2003 The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with the OpenOffice CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml