Windows 7: Shields on Icons ?

SIW2 · 26 Jan 2009

Sudden appearance of Run as Admin type shields on many icons - any ideas?

Malware scans - Avast, Windows Defender, A-squared, MSRT, F-Secure blacklight - Malwarebytes - all clean.

Uploaded a couple of the files with shields on to Virus Total - clean.

Brink · 26 Jan 2009

Hi SIW2,

I think I have seen this before with a security program placing them there for files that it has scanned or something.

What was the last program that you installed before this happened?

SIW2 · 26 Jan 2009

Hi Shawn,

I ran a little app. called Anvir Task Manager , have had it for quite a while, but not used it for a long time. It didn't do that when I used it a couple of months back.

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Those shields are on all my O/S which is strange - not just 7x64, which is where I looked at that app. So, I don't think it's that.

Curious.

SIW2

mansrm81 · 26 Jan 2009

I got those on the cpu-z, gpu-z and core temp programs.

SIW2 · 26 Jan 2009

Thanks - do you know where they come from. They only appeared in the last day or so.

SIW2

mansrm81 · 26 Jan 2009

I think its cause of the run as admin option cause I have them also on like the video driver setup and other setup exe's

SIW2 · 26 Jan 2009

Some of mine don't have run as admin ticked - also , it just started happening - apparently out of nowhere

Have yours been there all along?

SIW2

Brink · 26 Jan 2009

SIW2,

This is part of Windows 7. I just noticed some of them on my installation and uninstall file icons. I suppose it's like Vista indicating which files will require approval before allowed to run, but I'm not certain why some have them and some do not yet.

swarfega · 26 Jan 2009

Arent those icons just informing you that some administrator level action will be required? There are some in the control panel as well.

SIW2 · 26 Jan 2009

I hope so - what I can't figure is why they have suddenly decided to appear now.

They are all over my Vista install as well.

They weren't there 2 days ago. Shawn is just noticing his - can't be as many as mine.

Do you have them on your desktop and taskbar shortcuts?

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Ccleaner seems to have escaped it tho.

Strange.

SIW2

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