An icon appeared out of nowhere

does anyone know what this is?

Published on August 2, 2007 By TampaMike In Animated Wallpapers

I'm running Vista Ultimate with a (don't laugh) Nvidia 7300 vid card.
I was unable to view any dreamscenes or dreamscape desktops.
A few days ago I installed the Elecard MPEG-2 decoder and streaming pack.
I was then able to view all dreamscene files and most .dream files.
In my quest to view the ones that still didn't work, I installed
ffdshow and was still unable to view certain .dream files.
Then it happened... I noticed an icon that sat in the top right corner
of the .dream or dreamscene desktop that hadn't been there before.
It's not there for any other desktop such as a photo or solid color.
I uninstalled ffdshow and it was still there.
I did an earlier system restore... still there.
I ran adware prgrams and a virus check on the entire system... still there.
I googled the shit out of this phantom icon and found nothing.
Does ANYONE have a clue what the hell it is????
It's a small 1/2" rectangle made up of 9 tiny white boxes.
I have a screen shot of it here my phantom icon

just in case that didn't work.... here's the address,
http://mikesuz.com/mike/images/desktop.jpg

H E L P ! ! ! !

Comments (Page 2)

KSib

on Aug 03, 2007

None of those processes have obvious spyware, adware, or malware names, but then if they were trying to be effective why would they?

I would look at both of your rundll32.exe files. Right click the process then click open file location. If one of the files does NOT open the C:\Windows\System32 directory then you have malware that needs to be taken care of.

CarGuy1

on Aug 11, 2007

You need to view all of the processes that are running to figure this out. Your image only shows 22 of the 61. Click on "show processes for all users" to display them and then repost your image.

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