Re: Is this a virus? Nasty enough to be...

From: ttvp (ttvp_at_cox.net)
Date: 04/10/04


Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 03:27:27 -0400


> The "squashed" image is a step forward in the description. Now the next
> question about that aspect is - was the display distorted, or was there
just
> a small image on an otherwise normal display.

Well, it was not distorted, I know that. It was as if the entire welcome
screen was horizontally compressed to just a few pixels. Either that or just
all but a few pixels were chopped off the right side of the screen (it
really was too small to even tell).

If my method of description is still slightly confusing, then this is as
simple as I can get (not as an insult to your intelligence, just to cover
all bases): Imagine an image with resolution of 640*480, now shrink the
image (or cut off the right side) to get an image that is 10*480 (estimation
only, of course).

That's the best description that I can come up with. That was the point that
I noticed the computer wouldn't respond to keystrokes, so I was forced to
hard-reboot.

-T.J.



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