So I'm pretty good with computers, but this one has just confused the hell out of me. Basically my problem is that my computer seems to be arbitrarily changing File Folders to Screen Saver (.scr) files. Yet the icon remains looking like it's a folder. No rhyme or reason as to when/where it happens.

At first I noticed the folders on my camera's SD card doing this, but my friend just gave me a hard drive to take a bunch of folders off, and just over half of them converted to Screen Saver files. The weirdest part is that I can still click on them and they open up the contents, just in a new screen. So if I'm looking at music of pictures, for example, it'll open up like 3 or 4 new windows before I get to what I'm trying to find.

Any ideas? I've googled and gotten zilch.

5/29/2012 12:39:41 PM

the only way that could sound any more like a virus is if it popped up a message that said "this is a virus." anyone remotely "good at computers" should understand this without even having to google it. I'd bet you 50 lafta dollar bux that the actual folders are hidden and clicking on the .SCR just reinfects the computer

5/29/2012 12:42:56 PM

Well it didn't raise any eyebrows until it just did it somewhere other than my SD card. Until now it was contained to there. I just reformatted and it was fine.

5/29/2012 12:46:31 PM

seriously. you have a virus. formatting the SD card didn't fix it. you have a virus. a quick google search yields:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080823104454AAKWys1
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic346445.html
http://www.securitystronghold.com/gates/trojandownloader.win32.vb.du.html
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/folders-showing-as-shortcuts-files-contained/bcc138cb-3a5c-4198-bd32-1379bb895cec
http://forums.techguy.org/virus-other-malware-removal/792325-removing-folder-name-scr-virus.html
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Folders_got_converted_to_.scr_since_then_the_contents_of_the_folders_cant_be_viewed


and these are from the first page of results. how did you google this and not figure out it was a virus? I'm not trying too hard to be a jerk, but come on...

5/29/2012 2:26:29 PM

I didn't mean that reformatting the SD card fixed everything. I'm saying that it fixed the problem, at least temporarily, on the SD card. "Virus" never crossed my mind until it randomly happened to other files that weren't on a removable drive.

5/29/2012 2:41:48 PM