problem in desktop icons

all my desktop icons got suddenly changed to internet explorer icons,after (i opened some program in the internet,) then i did some personalisation then it changed to my adobe photoshop icon, all the desktop icons now shows the adobe,,icons.like all my programs which was earlier like (yahoo msngr, msn mesengr,windows vista programs,almost all other programs) and my internet wireless stopped working. i have a vista home premium 32. and my comp is asus f3t series. i was trying to do the icon cache, but couldnt find. tried restarting but couldnt solve.now trying to run my antivirus scan Mcafee. if anybody knows the solution to restore my earlier icons .please help me, and other suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Ok, If this happened when you tried to open something in IE, it leads me to believe its some type of infection. I understand that you have mcafee but i dont personally like or trust mcafee fully. download malwarebytes and spybot. install. update packages, then disconnect from the internet. Do a restart. When you re-boot, once you log in, disable Mcafee and run these two programs. See what they pick up.
Once the scans are done, restart after they remove anything, if there is anything.

Let us know,
More help is waiting if needed!!!

Ben

yeah ben thanks for the reply,, am trying to download malware..as u told me. i too think that is a virus. strange all my icons including ones in the acessories, desktop, and all changed to one similar icon as internet explorer or something else. am very worried whether i wouldnt solve the problem. anyway lets see ben whether malware..programhelps. thanks for the reply
robin.

No problem. Make sure you also run spybot. This could be spyware i think. Im guessing its nothing major, kiddie code, but you still would want to be safe. You never can tell.

hi ben,,the malware found two infected items and my mcafee found 30 cookies, now runing spybot ,, still seems the problem not solved, and i cant access internet, am doing this from a friends computer connected to internet, i think u understud wat the problem is.. even some of my notepad icons had turned up to as ZIP ICONS,, lets see wat the spybot says.... ut if u have other options plz reply. am so worried

robin

Ok Robin,
Try this, choose a document that you have, like a notepad document. Even though it has the internet icon, right click on it and choose open with. If a menu opens to the right when you highlight it, go down to the bottom and choose "Choose Default Program"
Then choose Notepad.
This should open it with notepad, and if it doesnt then we could be in trouble. If it does open, see if that changes your icon for that one file.

Also, i would suggest you back up any important files you have on your computer, just to be safe. Rather be safe then sorry...

Let me know,
Ben

i tried using the open program with or default program, it uses the action to all the icons and then for eg: say i want to open a media file which is now IE icon, now when i use open with or default program, all the icons changes to media player icon.
what if i do a system restore will i lose imortant data??

Ya, wow, i cant believe i didnt think of this. I dont have this turned on anymore, i never used it so i forgot about that DUH!!! Im sorry. Haha
Yes, you could lose data, but odds are against that. Just do a quick backup of any really important files that you might have and restore away!!!

Let me know how everything goes and if you need any help any time, just post here. An alert is sent to my email which is connected to my blackberry. So anytime someone posts on a subscribed thread, i just open the forums on my Blackberry Storm and help them. So really, ANY TIME, ill help

Hope this works,
Ben

Neverhavemoney said:

Ya, wow, i cant believe i didnt think of this. I dont have this turned on anymore, i never used it so i forgot about that DUH!!! Im sorry. Haha
Yes, you could lose data, but odds are against that. Just do a quick backup of any really important files that you might have and restore away!!!

Let me know how everything goes and if you need any help any time, just post here. An alert is sent to my email which is connected to my blackberry. So anytime someone posts on a subscribed thread, i just open the forums on my Blackberry Storm and help them. So really, ANY TIME, ill help

Hope this works,
Ben

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Thanks Ben anyway,, i did the system restore option,,and i think this option every one shld learn about it. it just restored my comp!!! as it was before. and the desktop icons changed to normal, and my internet wireless started working. wow am so glad,, i even had a sleepless night,, thinking about the problem coz i had important things working out in ma computer. thanking u ben for being more supportive.
thanks bye..robin

THATS GREAT ROBIN!!!!
I am very happy for you and your computer. Glad i could help, well lack of. HAHA. Now you know where to come if you need help with your computer. Vistax64

Happy we help you,
Ben

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