Why are a few of my desktop icons randomly disappearing?
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Hi. Yesterday I had noticed something extremely fishy about my desktop. I noticed that a few of my shortcuts had disappeared. My Firefox, iTunes, SWTOR and NBA2k12 shortcuts had disappeared and only those four. I immediately became very worried and ran a few scans to see if maybe I had picked up a virus or some type of spyware. I'm running windows 7. If you have any idea why only a few of my desktop icons would be disappearing please let me know. ASAP. Thanks in advance. **EDIT** A friend of mine suggested running a system restore and then downloading a program called malwarebytes to scan my PC. I restored and ran malwarebytes and that picked up adware.gameplaylabs , the malwarebytes program then removed the adware and I assumed everything was okay. I then decided to reboot my PC and when it launched back up I again was missing those four shortcuts.
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Answer:
Doing a system restore on an infected computer will only increase the chances of rejuvenating the virus hidden in your restore points. Disable system restore in control panel >System. Then restart the computer in Safe Mode and do a system scan with malwarebytes after updating it. Then also download superantispyware to scan again for remnant viruses before starting in normal mode and reactivating system restore.
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