Trev-the-Rev Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 Fo all you IT guys out there and any one with more knowledge about PC's than me, which is most people. My IE icon on my desktop has suddenly got the letters 'uu' attached to it instead of the old Internet Explorer. Every thing appears to be working normally, but could this some devilish spyware or something, or should I just forget about it? Quote
nixy Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 your desk top icon is merely a short cut to the actual program so delete the icon and then send another copy from the program back to your desktop and see if it goes back to normal. Quote
stanski Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 Trev I would run a virus scan on your hard drive just in case mate - does'nt sound too clever - they dont change by them selves!! But yes delete , delete from recylce bin and create a new one? Quote
Stew Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 Could it be possible that you changed it by clicking twice slowly and typing u twice.... It's amazing the things you can do when on the phone, moving paper around etc. I know the things I do as my desk is full of screens and stuff (I'm not an IT monkey though!) Quote
nixy Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 Thank god you don't have a job where you have your finger on a big red button Stew! Quote
MrLizard Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 I have heard of files being renamed by programs to file.uu as it usually refers to a flag for something else to encode/decode the file. Never heard of renaming a shortcut though, and although i wouldnt panic too much I think it would be worth running a quick scan http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner Above is a good online scanner which is currently the market leader in recognised threats, tho it will only tell you of the problem, not get rid of it, worth doing though. Quote
nixy Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 AVG and spyware blaster are both really good free ones as well. Spyware blaster in particular solved a problem for me that my usual anti virus never picked up. Quote
Stew Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 Thank god you don't have a job where you have your finger on a big red button Stew! I can hit the red button for about 300,000 barrels per day of oil........ I don't have control over the rest. Don't worry folks it'd be hard to do it by accident! Quote
stanski Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 Stew's just power mad - the man with the finger on the black gold! Quote
Stew Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 oops..... Petrol prices are up tomorrow I'm afraid! Quote
Trev-the-Rev Posted August 4, 2008 Author Posted August 4, 2008 Ok, I've run an AVG scan and that came up with nothing more sinister than a few tracking cookies. I also ran Simentec AV and that didn't show anything. The problem I have now though is I have created a new shortcut from MSN, but I can't find how to get my favourites back. Any help will be much appreciated Quote
Trev-the-Rev Posted August 4, 2008 Author Posted August 4, 2008 Panic over - I didn't have the Status Bar activated Quote
stanski Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 Nice one Trev best to double check with a virus scan anyway you never know! Quote
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