[HM] Black Apple on desktop

[michaelP]

>From: "J. Dobson" <j.dobson at earthlink.net>
>To: "A place to discuss Macintosh Computers in the home."
<homemac at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: [HM] Black Apple on desktop
>Date: Fri, Sep 17, 2004, 6:20 am
>

> This falls into the "where the heck did that come from?" and "what the heck
> is that?" category.
>
> A black Apple with the word "apple" beside it suddenly turned up on my
> desktop. I don't dare double click it, cause I've never seen it before and
> don't know where it came from since I haven't installed anything new in
> ions. It does have the bite out of it on the right like Apple's logo but it
> just put up some red flags.  Am I being paranoid?
> Can I/should I open this?
>
> Jackie
> G3 / OS9.2

Jackie, have you tried finding out what kind of beastie it is by doing
<SINGLE CLICK to select the icon> then <APPLE/COMMAND> +<I> to obtain
information about the file? It could just be a picture or a folder or just
an icon, needn't be an application... Do that first and do not double click
until you're sure what it is.

regards

michaelP