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Identifying Systray icons

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My daughter's computer is sick. It's partly my fault, I turned off the firewall the last time I was troubleshooting her wireless, and I forgot to turn it back on.

Killing the virus would have been quicker if I'd been able to identify it sooner. But the main symptom was an icon in Systray that blinked furiously and popped up vius warnings, yet provided no info on mouse-over and no right-click menu. Because my daughter had just switched to a cable modem, I couldn't be sure that this wasn't some support feature provided by her new ISP (although the lack of information made that doubtful).

I caught myself muttering that there ought to be a tool that would tell me which program owned each Systray icon...which means there probably is one. Couldn't find it on the Web, though.

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