[mso] Re: icons
- From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:26:41 -0600
Well, if you're confident that your AV software is up to date and that
you did a full system scan, you can confirm that your clean by following
the instructions here:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear@xxxx
tml
As I recall (and I'm aging rapidly so don't hold me to this) one of the
variations on this worm does some extension reassociation to get the
teddy bear look going.
IrFanView is an image viewing app that also has some batch capabilities.
Being an image viewer, it wouldn't surprise me that it may have grabbed
an association to some of the more common extensions, though. Have you
installed it by any chance? I know that Lockergnome recently reviewed it
so perhaps you were reading that daily email from Lockergnome and
followed the link and installed it?
Finally, there's the possibility that your Operating System's
ShellIconCache may be corrupted. Since that's an OS specific fix-up and
the boss has already had her OS switch flipped for the day, I'll avoid a
lengthy discourse on that item. I'll say only the following; the
corrupted ShellIconCache problem is most common in all versions of Win9x
(including ME) and NT4. I've yet to see it occur in XP or 2000.
This article may get you started on resolving the issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;132668
The instructions are pretty clear but we used to simply delete the
ShellIconCache file from the Windows folder and reboot. This may or may
not work on your current system but it will not harm anything to delete
the file as it is automagically generated by the OS.
Hope that helps!
Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com
"Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11!
With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?"
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ECarmona@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 8:52 PM
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> Subject: [mso] Re: icons
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>
> I'm not sure about IrfanView what it is or if it is
> installed. Could someone
> fill me in? and the BugBear virus? Is that what I am
> potentially dealing
> with? I do a weekly virus scan and always when there is a
> new alert. That
> was what I did before the disk clean would I have activated
> it somehow?
> What should I do?
>
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