Strange icons are appearing on my desktop

Can anybody explain what these strange icons are that keep appearing on my desktop. They just appear to be images of icons and are not functioning icons of any sort. Very strange!?
They are in the bottom left corner of the screenshot attached.

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The Color Sync Utility is part of OSX and usually resides in the Application/Utilities folder.
Don't know how it appeared on your desktop.
But it is no malware, spyware or the like but as said part of OSX.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8476.html
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As you were, solved, thank you. CM
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