Chasing icons

[ringwood]

Hi all
I came in to my office computer after being out yesterday to find that I can't click on any desktop icons. They run away from the cursor! This computer is left on all the time and others use it for email. I shut down and restarted several times to no avail. I tried looking in the startup menu, but didn't see anything obvious.
I may have overlooked something. Could this be a virus or is someone playing a joke on me. When I look in the task menu there isn't anything running.

HELP!
Thanks
Ringwood

 

[brianF]

view this thread and hit the links to check if it's a virus or not
http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?threadid=61864&highlight=icons

 

[Rockn]

It's definately a virus......seen plenty of those infections and I do believe it's the magistr virus.

 

[TonyKlein]

Take a look here:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magistr.24876@mm.html

And here's a dedicated Magistr cleaner: http://www.wilders.org/HTMLobj-746/Antimagistr.zip

Good luck,