My desktop is covered with Adobe Reader icons. Why? How to get rid of them?

For some reason, my desktop recently become infested with Abobe Acrobat icons. I did nothing. one day I turned on my computer and of the maybe 100 icons on my desktop were changed to the Acrobat icons (or at least something that looks very much like it). The programs that they are connected to all still work.
So this is something that came along from the web (apparently) and switched in new icons for many of the programs on my desktop. Or what else I do not know.
The issue is how can I change all of these icons back to the images that they have been since the programs were installed or the file was stored on my desktop?
I actually saw the transition occur. All of a sudden my desktop flickered and 60 or 70 of the 160 icons on it were for Adobe Reader and, in fact,  look exactly like the Adobe Readr icons I see now on this web page!!@!!
John Wirt

Assuming that you are on Windows: possibly https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/application-file-icons-change-acrobat.html

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