What is it?

Teenagers were on the computer last night - today I have problems. Many of my desktop icons have a small red square in the lower left of the icon. There is also a small yellow area in the red square. What is this? Soundblaster also had a yellow exclamation in device manager and said that it was "removed" when I scanned for hardware. Most of the desktop icons were shortcuts to websites - some were shortcuts to programs like AIM and Windows media player. Can you tell me what caused these changes - Thanks

Just enough knowledge to be dangerous........

Just enough knowledge to be dangerous........ well unfortunatly that describes me too.

When I do that sort thing to my work machine I use system restore, but its Windows ME. You don't mention what OS you have? If it's on my gaming rig below, well I reformat and start over, but then it has only games on it, so WTH !

(at least this will give you a bump so one the of guru's can help)


XP 2000+
MSI KT3 ULTRA-2 KT333
Maxtor 60GB ATA 133 7200RPM
512MB PC2700
ABIT G4 Ti4200 OTES 64MB
Win98SE

sounds like they were downloading songs from the web, that red box is similar to the one that a program called bulldog puts there for peer to peer sharing networks...and chatting with their friends on aol instant messenger(AIM) solution: kick their sorry butts off and dont let them back on. if not they will continue to cause problems, i know, i have 2 damn teenagers myself, and they screw up the puter so bad i built one just for them to screw around on and when they mess it up, i make them reload it your best bet is to reload your puter and start over, keeping them OFF!

Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is no way to go through life Son.