Question A lot of my desktop icons are now black ?

[marliyna]

I downloaded Kaspersky yesterday and today a lot of my desktop icons are black, I'm not sure if it's related but that's the only thing that changed with my pc. This happens with both standar apps and programs I've downloaded.

In this picture the black icons are for Steam, Edge and Kaspersky:

https://imgur.com/a/RnwPg1R

View: https://imgur.com/a/RnwPg1R

I have a job that makes me go to a lot of shady websites so there's a very real possibility that my pc got attacked by a virus, I got the Kaspersky reports in the second and third image yesterday too. Everything seems to be working normally except for that. Could this be a sign of a virus? And can I fix it?

PC Specs
Motherboard: MSI B650 EDGE WiFi ATX
CPU: Ryzen AMD 5 7600x
GPU: Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4060
RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-5600 32GB CL40 Dual Channel
Cooler: NZXT Kraken 360
SSD_01: Corsair Force MP600 CORE XT 2TB PCIe 4.0 M.2
SSD_02: Samsung 870 EVO SSD 1TB 2.5'' SATA 600
PSU: Corsair RM750
Case: NZXT H9 Elite

 

[Lutfij]

I have a job that makes me go to a lot of shady websites so there's a very real possibility that my pc got attacked by a virus, I got the Kaspersky reports in the second and third image yesterday too. Everything seems to be working normally except for that. Could this be a sign of a virus?
And what kind of job would that be?

And can I fix it?
See if rebuilding your icon cache helps bring the icons back to the way they were.

 

[marliyna]

I have a job that makes me go to a lot of shady websites so there's a very real possibility that my pc got attacked by a virus, I got the Kaspersky reports in the second and third image yesterday too. Everything seems to be working normally except for that. Could this be a sign of a virus?
And what kind of job would that be?

And can I fix it?
See if rebuilding your icon cache helps bring the icons back to the way they were.

I'm a domain assessor my job is to categorize helpful and scam websites so I end up visiting a lot of harmful websites

 

[Ralston18]

If you disable and/or uninstall Kaspersky do the icons return to normal?

Are you able to determine the black icon type and its' folder/file location?

 

[USAFRet]

I'm a domain assessor my job is to categorize helpful and scam websites so I end up visiting a lot of harmful websites

And that is what a sacrificial PC and/or Linux system is for.

Something that can be easily be recovered from yesterdays image, and something not vulnerable to Windows malware.

 

[MJS WARLORD]

You openly admit you go to shady websites as part of your job so i think their are some simple checks to do on your system.
1. do a full av scan
2. run windows defender
3. use malwarebytes , if it finds anything quarantine/delete and repeat till it finds nothing because although malwarebytes is good it does not find and delete all segments on first pass.
4. look in add/remove for items you dont recognise.

I stopped using kaspersky when russian invaded ukraine but i am surprised it lets you go onto sites you probably should not go on .... it used to stop me going on some forums and would even destroy some things i tried to download even though i was not doing anything wrong

i dont know if this article will help you
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/icons-turn-black-in-windows-10