Green dot in lower left hand corner of file icon?

You probably just tried or purchased Carbonite, and Carbonite puts the Green dot in lower left hand corner of file icon to indicate that a file has been backed up by Carbonite.

This causes a

• green dot in the lower left hand corner of a file icon
• green dot in the lower left hand corner of a directory icon
• green dot in the lower left hand corner of a folder icon

and I put all of these in so that search engies would find them ad peopel would solve their problem faster.