Unknown Desktop Shortcut?

From: Frank Pecenka (fhpecenka_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 07/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 16:45:20 -0700

Can one of you computer experts shed some light on two things that have
recently happened to my computer, which may or may not be related?

The first being a shortcut that suddenly appeared out of nowhere on my
desktop several weeks ago. The shortcut has no file association and shows
the tilde or ~ symbol in the name column. Below is the information pulled
up from the file properties.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop

200 KB (205,127 bytes)

~

What is this shortcut and how did it get there?

I do run Norton Anti-Virus and keep my definitions up to date.

The second issue that appeared about the same time but do not know for sure
is that whenever I encounter a page that requires fields of data to be
filled out the background of certain fields is highlighted in yellow. This
is a new occurrence as they all used to be white before.

Thank you for your help and advice.

Frank Pecenka