Moving Desk Top Icons 2

[goreyhill]

Hi There, I'm using win98 and I seem to be having trouble with the desktop icons. They set on auto arrange but keep moving around the screen on their own ! When ever I mouse over one it just moves around. It looks like someone has installed a joke program, but I cant find any trace of one.

Regards

 

[wolluf]

virus scan?

 

[BlueScreenOfDeath]

Yup, sounds very virus related. Go and download a decent virus checker ASAP. Would also recommend you don't send email to anyone you like until the problem is solved too ;o)

 

[goreyhill]

Im using Norton AV02, Its upto date and no sign of a virus.

 

[craigey]

If it's definately not a virus then someone has installed/run a joke program. You'll just have to look for it.

But if your a little indecisive about wheter or not the PC is infected, then try

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magistr.24876@mm.html

or

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html/

 

[Crustyoldbloke]

Try moving your mouse cursor to the very top left-hand of your desktop and see if a little close box appears.
Regards
Phil
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.

 

[craigey]

Ok. I also found this:

Readers help on jumping icons 

    Recently, a reader wondered why her desktop icons would not stay where she put them, and we responded that icons are structured according to size, type, etc., but cannot be placed willy-nilly on the desktop. Here are other readers' suggestions for icon positioning: 

    Steve Anderson of Martinsville wrote: Reading the letter from Anne Miles of Bedford, it sounds like she is infected by the Magistr virus. Even though she says that Norton's AV shows her virus - free, I would make a bet that she is only running a scan of her program files and not an "All Files" scan. I would recommend that she update her Norton files from their Web site and set her scan to run an "All Files" scan. Instructions for setting the scan are linked in the following article from Symantec: [URL unfurl="true"]http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magistr.24876@mm.html.[/URL] 

    There was a small "joke" program that was going around the Net a while back that would make the desktop icons react this way, but I was unable to locate reference to it doing a Web search.

I found this information on

http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story132825.html

 

[craigey]

oh and i found this.

http://www.cspltd.ndirect.co.uk/desktop/funstuff.htm

look for CrazyIcons, SneakyIcons, SwappingIcons.

 

[Kento]

goreyhill, you probably have magistr. Forget Norton for a moment and run an online scan here:

http://housecall.antivirus.com/

And/or get this free magistr removal tool and run it and see if it detects that virus...

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magistr.removal.tool.html

...if it does you need to remove it immediately as it is very destructive. Eventually it'll wipe your drive clean and screw up the bios. Since the icons are now moving you've been infected for at least 2 months and have probably infected alot of others via emails, especially those in your addy book.

 

[goreyhill]

Thanks Everyone problem now sorted it was the magistr virus.