Invisible object on desktop???

Post by **Steve** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:03 am

This has me stumped!!

Working on my win XP Pro PC. Have discovered an invisible "object" on the desktop. It's positioned top of screen right of centre, about 3 icons wide, 2 icons deep.

I can't see it as such. The wallpaper appears correctly. It's as though there is an invisible "something" there. I only found it by accident. i dragged some files from an explorer window to the desktop, but couldn't drop them onto this specific area. Rather than the usual "copy here / create shortcut etc" menu which appears, over this area I just get a no entry sign??

If I right click on the area a menu appears (will post more details when I can) and if I select properties I get a window declaring it to be a firefox http document with the following URL http://cpk3.easy78.cn/count/count.asp?m ... =cpk3_0803

I can only find one reference on the web under google.

Any suggestions welcome.

I have virus scanned today twice before I found this. Nothing showed up using McAfee AV8

Have run Spybot S&D other than tracking cookies it found nothing serious.

Is this another reason to stick to booting into Linux?

Edit :- Additional. Once I open the properties window, you can not shut it again. Nothing shows under task manager as a running app etc.

Post by **Steve** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:52 am

AVG free anti virus found a total of 8 trojan infected files. Deleted three, healed four, isolated the last in the virus vault.

Yah AVG!!
Boo McAfee!! AV8 had allowed the downloads, which I then scanned at the time etc, also did not detect them running etc.

Still problem averted.

PsyBio · Post by **PsyBio** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:55 pm

Steve wrote:AVG free anti virus found a total of 8 trojan infected files. Deleted three, healed four, isolated the last in the virus vault.

Yah AVG!!
Boo McAfee!! AV8 had allowed the downloads, which I then scanned at the time etc, also did not detect them running etc.

Still problem averted.

Hello, Steve, I have exactly the same problem as yours! I'm on XP Home SP2. The only thing i have in mind is FLASHGET! Have you ever installed fashget on your machine? I think this happened after trying to download flash animation from a website. I've removed flashget just after that because i couldn't click on File and Edit menus and after restart I realized this invisible object was over every program. The problem is that mine is in the upper left corner of the desktop an it's "always on top" so I cant click on menus and buttons situated upper left on any maximized program! It's unbelievably irritating! I've scanned my computer with various anti-virus and anti-spy programs, I've NOD32 3.0.642 with latest defs resident on my computer - nothing - nor virus, nor spy, ad or whatever ware. Please, if you have any solution it will be greatly appreciated!

Post by **Steve** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:53 pm

It's been a while, and my memory is a little unreliable, but the free AVG anti virus solved it where others did not.

I have in the past had flashget (firefox addon) but have not seen it cause problems although did'nt really help me either so got rid of it.

Best solution I found was to download a copy of Ubuntu and install it along side windows XP as a duel boot.

After a while you realise you don't use XP anymore.