Shields on Icons ?

[SIW2]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[SIW2]

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

SIW2

 

[mansrm81]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[SIW2]

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?



Ccleaner seems to have escaped it tho.

Strange.

SIW2

 

[mansrm81]

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

Its not right away usually its a day or so and then they get the icon.

 

[Mark]

They are programs that require admin rights, if you turn off UAC they all disappear.

 

[Airbot]

I have them on some and some not too, but i've always had them like this, even in Vista.

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[SIW2]

Thanks Aaron & Mr Grim,

Odd that mine took so long to appear. There may have been one or two that I didn't notice, but now it's crawling with them.

Maybe you need to run the app. then the shield is added at the next reboot - or like mansrmn says a few days later, inexplicably.


SIW2

 

[Airbot]

I don't think it's anything to worry about Si.

 

[SIW2]

Thanks Aaron,

Not worried, just curious as to how they seem to have multiplied suddenly.

It could be because those 4 apps. on the Taskbar have all been updated recently, where the newer one installs over the existing. That may have triggered it.

SIW2

 

[Airbot]

Yeah, I've had them come on the icon when I'd run it as admin and some I've run as admin and the shield never shows on the icon. I guess it just depends, on what I don't know. lol

 

[Brink]

None on the taskbar for me, but I do see them in the Start Menu Pin area and program installation and uninstall files.

 

[darkassain]

None on the taskbar for me, but I do see them in the Start Menu Pin area and program installation and uninstall files.

actually for me they do apear on the taskbar (it depends if you have the shorcut modified to run as admin or if you have Vlite...)


process explorer need to run in admin rights since it will not show me all the info on all the process (also it wont kill some if you dont make it run as admin...)

vlite just has it (didnt change anything but is like that)
same for computer management console.....|

oh and as you can see i have a pretty busy taskbar...

 

[makubex]

Yeah I have this problem in the RTM too... rather annoying.