Unhappy face icon on NT 4 workstation

From: Sopatyk, Donna (donna.sopatyk@eds.com)
Date: 02/13/03

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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:23:55 -0500

    Hi all,
    I've had some unexplained things happen on my NT 4.0 workstation. I was
    having some problems with blue screening before because my palm pilot cradle
    was not set up right with the baud rate. I also noticed that someone had
    mapped a drive to another server with the Administrator account. I know I
    don't know the password for that account, and that concerns me.
    When I was checking things out, I noticed that "my computer" icon was like a
    yellow unhappy face. I've never seen that before. When I placed my cursor
    over it, it changed to a different icon...but no the hardware drive that it
    usually looks like. After I rebooted, it went back to normal. Hasn't
    happened since. I've disconnected my PC anywhere, ran a virus scan on my
    machine and changed my password.
    Has anyone ever heard of a unhappyface icon on NT? Virus or otherwise?
    Thanks
    Donna

    Donna Sopatyk
    MCSE+I CNA
    Information Security Analyst
    EDS
    Phone: (403)205-2893
    Pager: (403)205-2136

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