RE: Unhappy face icon on NT 4 workstation

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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:48:01 +0100
From: <Tom-Rune.Berg@telenor.com>
To: <focus-ms@lists.securityfocus.com>

> That aside, it is also possible for the desktop to get "whacked" (yes I said
> whacked cause I have no other name for it) and as a result, Icons in general
> get shuffled over. In other words, where you might see a FOLDER icon, you
> will see a NOTEPAD icon, etc. Where there any other problems with ICONS? If
> not, I'd venture to say it was my first suggestions. None the less, the ICON
> in of itself would not bother be, but that someone had admin level rights to
> change this, would.
>
> I would suggest rebuilding that system, unless you can find how someone got
> in, and ensure that nothing was planted (i.e. back-doored). Good Luck
> -bill-

Hi,

If you can locate the wonderful "TweakUI" application for NT4, it has a feature that rebuilds icons when the desktop 'whacks out'

I have successfully used this tool to repair Windows 98 and Windows XP Pro when they have 'whacked', although the XP rescue operation took 36 hours. The computer was partially unresponsive for that user while this went on, however I was successful in running background processes, server services and light usage of other simultanous user accounts.

kind regards,
Tom R. Berg

-----Original Message-----
From: Sopatyk, Donna [mailto:donna.sopatyk@eds.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:24 PM
To: 'focus-ms@lists.securityfocus.com'
Subject: Unhappy face icon on NT 4 workstation

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
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