I have Icons covering my desktop. (yellow triangles with black "i". can someone help?

It sounds like a desktop hijacker. Try using these scans.

All of these are ones that I personally use and all are free.After you install any of them,make sure you update them to get the full affect.

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Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free.

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It is most probably a Smitfraud infection, and suggestions by Classic will certainly help. If it doesn't work, then go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore. Follow the instructions and restore your computer configuration to some earlier date when it wasn't there. Then, reboot and scan with the anti-spyware mentioned.

In the future, remember to always keep the real-time shields of your anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall active and updated.