Hello Whocares:
Thanks for responding. I have windows 98 and the message is under the heading “missing shortcut”. The message is “windows is searching for vfxcb23.exe. To locate file yourself click browse”. If I hesitate before closing this out another message appears like “the item vfxcb23.exe that this shortcut refers to has been changed …” This sequence of events repeats for different files. At the moment I am getting about 30 of these.
By the way I tried avast cleaner which found no viruses. Hope I answered all of your questions.