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Possible virus - discoloured bookmarks icons in Edge and Chrome
Hi
I think my desktop and laptop may be infected with a virus - in both edge and chrome icons are appearing with discoloration (please see photo) - It is happening on the laptop as well as desktop. It's the youtube icon that is altered but some others are changed too - when hovering over the the other icons they appear normal.
Apart from these discoloured icons all other computer functions seem ok.
I've done a full scan with defender and malware bytes and they were both clear - can anyone recommend what next steps should be taken?
EDIT: Forgot to say my laptop is running Windows 10 and desktop is running Windows 11.
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Hey, I have this too since about 2 weeks ago. I have noticed it affects Youtube and Reddit icons in chrome and edge. Firefox and Opera are unaffected. I haven't noticed any other change. Did you ever find anything out about this?
Hi - glad I am not the only one... Same here with reddit icons. Have found no solution and have run plenty of virus scans...
- I just now found this thread on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/10bfdrn/is_this_some_kind_of_virus_on_my_chrome_browser/
Struppigel's comment solved my problem, specifically this:
"Enter chrome://flags
In Force Color Profile and choose scRGB
Relaunch Chrome"
Apparently a chrome bug and not a virus according to this guy, although edge is still effected, but I don't use that so doesn't bother me. There might be a similar solution for edge but I haven't tried.
