Weird icons on desktop?

Question

My little brother managed to screw up our computer and download all this junk in it. There are random five desktop icons.

쬀쬀언4曀楔MSO1033

쬀DŽ쬀DŽ쌜6曀欳MSO1033

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Is there anyway to removie these without having to restore the computer? If there is can you please give me a link to a free program that will remove them?

Answer 1

Well, it looks Chinese to me. An MSO is a program that INSTALLS software. So first of all, I would suggest that maybe you go into Add/Remove programs and try to uninstall whatever he installed. If that does not do it, you could attempt to RESTORE the computer to before the date when he installed th crud on it. Try restoring, it probably is the best advice. When something gets downloaded from China, there is a 95% chance it is malware, they are SPYING ON YOU and your system has been compromised. Finally, if you cannot get rid of it or restore it to an earlier date, you probably need to wipe the hard disk clean adn reinstall the operating system.

Answer 2

It could be a virus or spyware, run your anti spyware and anti virus software scans. If you don't have anti spyware or anti virus programs free but effective ones can be downloaded.

Avira personal edition --- anti virus --- freeware

Ad Aware --- anti spyware --- freeware



It could just be some random corruption or invalid shortcut, registry error, etc

You can download glary utilities for free which has a bunch of clean up utilities such as disk cleaner, spyware removal, short cut fixer, etc

Glary utilities --- general computer clean up --- freeware



If they are just legitimate crappy programs you can just uninstall them.

Go to Start

>control panel

>programs and features

start googling every program you do not recognize and uninstall one IF YOU ARE SURE it is unneeded.



Lastly, can you just right click on the icons and click delete?

Answer 3

particularly some bas***ds make viruses disgised as a deadly disease remover and this virus seems to be tinkering with homestead windows explorer brobably monitoring what courses you employ so flow to my computing gadget, open tension c and click on application archives and hit upon a document referred to as to virus remover and delete it then empty recycle bin wish it helps!

Answer 4

yes run this scan and delete what it finds - you have a malware infection http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

Answer 5

Maybe it's good

Answer 6

I think it depends