Combofix Deleted Icons and Files - Plz help!

Hi, I followed a post to run ComboFix and I think it worked, but now most of my icons for programs are gone from the Desktop and Start Menu. Although I haven't done a full test, it seems that all programs are working.

I have read many posts and can't figure out exactly how to dequarantine to restore the icons and it seems like a case-specific thing that requires the ComboFix log files from my machine. I didn't want to try messing with anything after reading many posts and trying to figure it out myself.

Can someone please help!? I have not done anything else since running ComboFix and have all log files, etc. I am running 32 bit Vista. Many thanks.
Rich

 

Thank you so much for responding. I see after the fact it is to be done only with supervision and I regret doing it now. I was following a guide to remove malware and it wasn't clear to me ComboFix should not be run without supervision.

My initial problem was high CPU and disk usage. I was monitoring resources and saw muzapp.exe was using a lot and research indicated it could be infected. It just seemed like I was infected with malware and wanted to do a thorough search and clean.

I have attached the log. Everything seems to work fine except all icons (except recycle bin, Internet Explorer, and Outlook) are gone from desktop and the Start/Programs menu. All the shortcuts and programs work if clicked but the icon for all of them just shows a little blank white page with the upper-right corner bent.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

 

Perhaps my description is misleading. I am not missing icons.

The problem is that for all shortcuts on my system, the icon for the shortcut is not displayed. Instead, a blank dog-eared page is displayed in place of the icon. The blue shortcut arrow is visible. This is the case for old and new shortcuts that I create. I can even go to Properties and Change Icon and it shows the one that should display and even though I select the right icon again and click Apply/Ok, the icon is never displayed.

This only happened after running ComboFix. Prior to running Combo Fix I ran Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Malicious Software Tool, and Malware Anti-Malware. The shortcut icons all displayed prior to running ComboFix. After running ComboFix, I have the above issue.

I did run unhide.exe and followed the additional instructions by Grinler in the article. I also searched and ran "sfc /scannow" and also tried to reset the icon cache.db. Still the problem persists.

Any ideas? Thanks again.

 

Yes, I did. There were I believe 3 restore points available and I tried all 3. And all 3 times it said there was a problem.

It sounds like there is not going to be a fix. I may have to try a windows forum and see if someone can point me to where the shortcut icon functionality is controlled. I suspect there is a registry entry that is corrupted.

 

That fixed it! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
Rich