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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by MeEtc
It means you might have a virus. It happened to a friend of mine before. I believe it was LoveLetter that did it. All of the mp3's were hidden, and the file was replaced with a copy of the virus with the same name of the mp3. So every time you went to play the song, oops! you just execute the virus again...
an mp3 can not contain a virus; It is not an executable format.
The icons didn't change either. The virus simple added _another_ file with the extension VBS, (not mp3). Vbs is the extention for VBScripts and are executables and of course has a different icon. So the virus didn't change the icons at all.
What MeEtc posted is completely correct and perfectly relevant. It is possible that the mp3 files are no longer shown (having being deleted, marked as hidden or system), and executables with the same name are now shown there. If this is the case, which is unlikely, these executables have their first icon set as one which is intended to imitate that of an audio file.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by Blair
have you tried repairing the icon cache? very long link
good luck...
That is for default system icons like the ones used on special folders like "My Computer"...
The icon cache is used for
all icons, regardless of their location or usage.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by rav0
Also, if the icon have been changed in appearance, but it is still the same icon being shown, just now modified, not a different icon, reinstalling Windows Media Player and/or Windows might restore them.
If you mean that they are kind of pixelated, then you don't need to reinstall anything (and certainly not the entire Windows OS). Instead change your colorsettings to the correct bit height (eg: 24bit or 32bit instead of 16 or 256 colors)
I meant reinstalling might restore icons which have been modified, not anything concerning display colours.
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