Comments on: Desktop Icons Randomly Appear And Disappear http://www.askageek.com/2008/02/06/desktop-icons-randomly-appear-and-disappear/ Where Geeks Answer Your Computer and Tech Questions! Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:41:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Explosivo http://www.askageek.com/2008/02/06/desktop-icons-randomly-appear-and-disappear/comment-page-1/#comment-8292 Explosivo Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:08:28 +0000 http://www.askageek.com/2008/02/06/desktop-icons-randomly-appear-and-disappear/#comment-8292 Could have been Virtuamonde also. Could have been Virtuamonde also.

]]> By: Explosivo http://www.askageek.com/2008/02/06/desktop-icons-randomly-appear-and-disappear/comment-page-1/#comment-8291 Explosivo Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:07:12 +0000 http://www.askageek.com/2008/02/06/desktop-icons-randomly-appear-and-disappear/#comment-8291 Sure, go in and try the obvious or not so obvious. But sometimes your computer will be flickering too much to do anything, or error-checking the disk or defragmenting it won't work, or safe mode doesn't work, or files people have told you to delete aren't even there. The way that worked for me is to run several virus checkers. If you use a net with wide holes, things will slip through. But if you use 3-4 nets, the holes get smaller and smaller and eventually you get the thing that is doing this. In my case, it was Virtuamundo (.vundo), which in Spybot made up about 100,000 of the 386,000 viruses it checked for, no joke. It found about 13 problems and fixed them all, but the flickering was still there. Then I ran Malware, and it found around 36 .vundo viruses and got rid of them all. Everything was fixed. So your real solution is to use many different virus, malware, spyware and adbot checkers, and the combination of them may be better than any single program. Sure, go in and try the obvious or not so obvious. But sometimes your computer will be flickering too much to do anything, or error-checking the disk or defragmenting it won’t work, or safe mode doesn’t work, or files people have told you to delete aren’t even there.

The way that worked for me is to run several virus checkers. If you use a net with wide holes, things will slip through. But if you use 3-4 nets, the holes get smaller and smaller and eventually you get the thing that is doing this.

In my case, it was Virtuamundo (.vundo), which in Spybot made up about 100,000 of the 386,000 viruses it checked for, no joke. It found about 13 problems and fixed them all, but the flickering was still there. Then I ran Malware, and it found around 36 .vundo viruses and got rid of them all. Everything was fixed.

So your real solution is to use many different virus, malware, spyware and adbot checkers, and the combination of them may be better than any single program.

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