diff --git a/class.tx_version_iconworks.php b/class.tx_version_iconworks.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce246d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/class.tx_version_iconworks.php
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+<?php
+/***************************************************************
+*  Copyright notice
+*
+*  (c) 2001 Francois Suter (francois.suter@typo3.org)
+*
+*  All rights reserved
+*
+*  This script is part of the TYPO3 project. The TYPO3 project is
+*  free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+*  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+*  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+*  (at your option) any later version.
+*
+*  The GNU General Public License can be found at
+*  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
+*  A copy is found in the textfile GPL.txt and important notices to the license
+*  from the author is found in LICENSE.txt distributed with these scripts.
+*
+*
+*  This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+*  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+*  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+*  GNU General Public License for more details.
+*
+*  This copyright notice MUST APPEAR in all copies of the script!
+***************************************************************/
+/**
+ *
+ * Implements a hook for t3lib_iconworks
+ *
+ */
+class tx_version_iconworks {
+	public function overrideIconOverlay($table, $row, &$status) {
+		if ($row['t3ver_state'] == 2) {
+			$status['deleted'] = TRUE;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+if (defined('TYPO3_MODE') && isset($GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS'][TYPO3_MODE]['XCLASS']['ext/version/class.tx_version_iconworks.php'])) {
+	include_once($GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS'][TYPO3_MODE]['XCLASS']['ext/version/class.tx_version_iconworks.php']);
+}
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ext_localconf.php b/ext_localconf.php
index 107bf08..df6c04d 100644
--- a/ext_localconf.php
+++ b/ext_localconf.php
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ if (!defined ('TYPO3_MODE')) {
 	// register the hook to actually do the work within TCEmain
 $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SC_OPTIONS']['t3lib/class.t3lib_tcemain.php']['processCmdmapClass']['version'] = t3lib_extMgm::extPath('version', 'class.tx_version_tcemain.php:&tx_version_tcemain');
 $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SC_OPTIONS']['t3lib/class.t3lib_tcemain.php']['moveRecordClass']['version'] = t3lib_extMgm::extPath('version', 'class.tx_version_tcemain.php:&tx_version_tcemain');
+	// Register hook for overriding the icon status overlay
+$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SC_OPTIONS']['t3lib/class.t3lib_iconworks.php']['overrideIconOverlay']['version'] = t3lib_extMgm::extPath('version', 'class.tx_version_iconworks.php:&tx_version_iconworks');
 
 if (TYPO3_MODE == 'BE') {