is it a virus?

[M. P.]

Which virus paralises cursor movements and causes strange behaviour of the
screen. Clicked programs do not work anymore. Characters are transformed
into nonsense. Before this happens, the curser seems to act like a brush
displacing pixels.

What can I do to eliminate the virus?

Thank you Otto

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Which virus paralises cursor movements and causes strange behaviour of the
screen. Clicked programs do not work anymore. Characters are transformed
into nonsense. Before this happens, the curser seems to act like a brush
displacing pixels.

What can I do to eliminate the virus?

Why don't you run an up-to-date virus scanner, rather than trying to
guess from symptoms?

 

[M. P.]

Because I can't run it from my computer ...
Otto

 

[kurt wismer]

Which virus paralises cursor movements and causes strange behaviour of the
screen. Clicked programs do not work anymore. Characters are transformed
into nonsense. Before this happens, the curser seems to act like a brush
displacing pixels.

What can I do to eliminate the virus?

try using an anti-virus product... generally a few scant symptoms are
not enough to identify it as one of the 80,000+ viruses out there, and
in this case it doesn't even seem clear that it is a virus in the first
place...

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, M. P., ([email protected]) said...

Which virus paralises cursor movements and causes strange behaviour of the
screen. Clicked programs do not work anymore. Characters are transformed
into nonsense. Before this happens, the curser seems to act like a brush
displacing pixels.

Never heard of such a beast. Did you try a virus scanner first? Yet I
believe the problem is hardware driver related. These problems are all
connected to the display, so I suspect the video or the mouse driver.
What OS do you run?


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Gabriele Neukam

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[KerplunKuK]

I had this virus. AVG picked it up but did not quarantine it or delete it.
Empty you temp internet files and it should resolve after a restart.

 

[Ka Khiong Kwok]

It's probably not a virus. I've seen it before at home and out in the field.
You've got a blown graphics card and the situation is deteriorating. Best
case scenario is that it's just the driver in which case boot into safe mode
otherwise try and pop a new card. If you're unsure, see if you could borrow
a working card from somebody and see if the problem is resolved. This way,
you'll know out right if it's the card that's causing you problems. If
you've tried both, then try a virus scanner, provided you could still boot
in.

Otherwise, try this trick. You'll need a friend with a computer that's got
an up-to-date virus scanner. Pop the drive out and jumper it so that it's a
slave. Pop the drive into your buddies computer and boot in. Before you even
try to see the drive in explorer or such, start up the scanner and ensure
that it's scanning all files (not your "smart scan" BS) and scan your drive
(which is the slave). If it's find something, nuke anything that the scan
finds (you don't have much choice) and pray that your drive will boot back
in later. If it doesn't find anything, then the O/S is screwed. In which
case, just try and load the O/S over the top of it and see if you could
recover that way.

If not, then pop the drive but into your buddies' system and yank anything
of use off the drive, you're only option may be to format the drive as
either a system file is cactus or the drive has bad sectors and it's
starting to go.

Good luck.

All the best,

Ka.

 

[M. P.]

i downloaded f-prot for DOS and burned the f-prot-files on CD (using an
other PC),
then with a start disk for Windows 98, I did run f-prot from the CD.
No virus files detected!
May be it's my graphics card ...
Otto

 

[M. P.]

Do you remember the name of the virus?
Otto

 

[M. P.]

Thank you, Ka Khiong Kwok, for your recomendations!
I tried out f-prot for DOS and didn`t get any virus warning.
I'll try out your recomendations.
Greetings Otto.

 

[M. P.]

I'm running Windows XP.
Thank you, Otto.

On that special day, M. P., ([email protected]) said...


Never heard of such a beast. Did you try a virus scanner first? Yet I
believe the problem is hardware driver related. These problems are all
connected to the display, so I suspect the video or the mouse driver.
What OS do you run?


Suchbegriff: 68.2.29.228
Adresse: whois.arin.netSuchergebnis:


Gabriele Neukam

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[KerplunKuK]

No, did not name it, only said it was a java virus. Emptying temp internet
folders gets rid of it. I'm also running Windows XP.

Scott

 

[Andy McKnight]

Initially this doesn't look like a virus, it looks graphics related. I've
seen similar on Win9x but not on XP yet.

Go into Control Panel - Display Properties - Settings. Change the number of
colours from True Colour 32 bit (which I'm guessing it's on) to High Colour
16 bit and see if that helps.

Andy.
IT Guy.