Recently on my machine (after running a keygen program - for educational purposes only, of course) the folder settings on my machine have been going mental.
The system keeps changing file icons for the network icon - first it was *.doc, then *.txt, then *.gif.
Does anyone know the culprit? My virus scanner didnt dsetect anything - but its not normal system behaviour (even for win98!)
Monday - what a way to spend a seventh of your life
try restarting, I donno but it fixes it for me.
Acos is good
have a look at an earlier thread on this board, it similar to your question
http://www.cprogramming.com/cboard/s...this+real+dude
not to do with file extensions but with icons.
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I had this too. when I had win98. It always happend when I ran a certain program. all the exe's had the word icon (or an other)I scanned with mcafee and he didn't gave a single virus. Now I use win2k and haven't had the problem yet. But I also haven't run that program yet.
I don't think you have much to worry about. It is probably a win98 anomaly
happens to me all the time, even after i reformat...no worries, just windows way of making itsself feel secure
Could be a trojan. As per the ICON post memtioned by C_CODER (originated by TOMKAT and his TakeOver app).
Needs to run an app to open the ports/sockets for it's evil master.
Look here for some advice
http://grc.com/default.htm
They have socket tester programs.
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