Icon Just Vanished - No Antivirus Software
Oct 11, 2005
I am facing an unusual problem in my PC. Well first of all I tell you the specs of my PC. Its a P4 2.4 Ghz machine with 512MB Ram and 80G HD. I have dual boot with 98 and XP as my 2 OSs. Most of the times I am on XP but for using DOS i need 98.
The symptoms of the problem/virus in my PC are as follows:When I right click on any icon; say drive, file, folder etc. The first option is displayed as 'blank' instead of 'open'. I clicked on that option on CD-Rom drive letter by mistake and the CD Rom was not being detected since then. The icon just vanished. No Antivirus software has detected it yet (Ive tried 2)
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