Virus scanner shmirus scanner, I haven't used one in nearly 3 years and I haven't had a single virus, all they are is system resource hogs/money makers for symantec corporation. You just have to be smarter than the people sending you files. More than 3 years ago I used to use virus scanners, I have only had two real virii before, and neither one of them was detected by the scanner.
If you get an email attachment from somebody you never heard of, and it says "this is a very special game, you are the first player, I hope you will enjoy it" and you download and run it, then simply put, you are a moron. It's people like you who fags get a rise out of and decide to create virii for in the first place, and at times I'll have to admit, its pretty funny.
Every 2 weeks or so I go to
www.pccillin.com and run their web based scanner just to make sure, it doesnt find nada, and when you arent running it, it goes away, and it doesn't cost a dime, nor do you have to go through warez sites to get a free copy.
And to fix the icon problem, all you have to do is download tweakui, and use the repair icons function. Windows screws up its icon cache a lot (buggy MS crap), so all you have to do is flush it when the wrong icons start to appear.