A mysterious icon shows up in my menu bar

For the past several weeks, a mysterious icon, which looks like a crude drawing of a castle, loads in my menu bar I when I log on. It only shows up briefly while I am logging in. When I click on it, I get the spinning beach ball.
Does anyone know what this icon is? I haven't installed any new apps though I might have changed some preferences of a few (none of which have an icon that looks like a castle). I am worried that this icon could represent some malware that I have inadvertently downloaded onto my iMac.
At another Mac website, I was advised to check all the .menu files since those are the ones that load in the menu bar. Unfortunately, the find command does not search the system folder or application packages, the 2 places where I would find the .menu file responsible for the disappearing castle icon in my menu bar.
Any other suggestions?? Thanks for any advice on this peculiar issue!!
Gwen

Steven,
Thanks for solving the mystery!! Yes, it was the NetUpdate X4 icon. Unfortunately, the preference pane for it is bugged so it won't let me turn it off. I will just reinstall the application.
Thanks again!!!
g
800 Mhz G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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