Virus or What? HELP!

[Leslie Jo]

Wow..this is confusing! I have a pc that is on a network.
All of a sudden one day the desktop was distorted like
little blocks all over it. We thought the video card was
bad. Video card is Radeon 9700 128mg. Tried another
monitor ,had same problem. Tried another card, had same
prob. It then would not boot into windows. I took out the
HD and added it as a D drive on another system. Worked
fine for a bit so i could copy files off and i was going
to reformat the drive, then...that pc started acting up.
The screen has blocks all over it and the OS is 98. Is
this a virus?Ran Mcafee and it saw no virus. I did have a
bad monitor and we hoked it up to the system with the
Radeon on it to see if the monitor was in fact bad...the
monitor was bad but could the monitor have done something
to the video card and it just keeps corrupting the OS"s??
PLEASE HELP!!! I am at my wits end!!!!!!

Thanks in advance!

Leslie Jo
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Wow..this is confusing! I have a pc that is on a network. All of a sudden
one day the desktop was distorted like little blocks all over it. We
thought the video card was bad. Video card is Radeon 9700 128mg. Tried
another monitor ,had same problem. Tried another card, had same prob. It
then would not boot into windows. I took out the HD and added it as a D
drive on another system. Worked fine for a bit so i could copy files off
and i was going to reformat the drive, then...that pc started acting up.
The screen has blocks all over it and the OS is 98. Is this a virus?Ran
Mcafee and it saw no virus. I did have a bad monitor and we hoked it up
to the system with the Radeon on it to see if the monitor was in fact
bad...the monitor was bad but could the monitor have done something to
the video card and it just keeps corrupting the OS"s??
PLEASE HELP!!! I am at my wits end!!!!!!

Thanks in advance!

Leslie Jo

Yup this sure sounds like a virus. Run a viruscheck as soon as possible. I
have had good experiences with Trends free online virusscan. You can find
it at http://housecall.trendmicro.com/. At the page where you can select
which drives to scan, remember to select "Auto clean" before you start the
scan.

After this, the first thing I would do is to buy some good antivirus
software and keep it updated.

BTW: There is no possible way that a monitor can affect a video card. The
VGA signal is an analog signal going from your video card and out the VGA
port. The monitor can then receive the signal through the cable. You can
compare it to a TV station that emits a TV signal which your TV can
receive.

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Svein Morten Rougnø
IT-administrator
Vestfold University College, Norway

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