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

From: Phil Weldon (notdisclosed_at_example.com)
Date: 04/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:13:24 GMT

Yes, the details are important. And believe me, it is very frustrating
when you are trying to help someone who for some reason or another doesn't
get the idea. At this point, I think you should take your system in to a
good repair shop. You really should not be trying to do it yourself. Just
keep in mind that not every computer fault is caused by a virus, trojan, or
other malware. 

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"ttvp" <ttvp@cox.net> wrote in message
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> > It's your system, so you are going to have to decide the course of
action to
> > follow.  At this point, you should move to insure access to your data in
the
> > NTFS partition.  Install Windows XP in another partition and it will
then
> > give you access to all your data, but you will not be able to run the
> > originally installed programs.  Once you have access to your data, move
it
> > to the partition where the new XP installation resides.  Then you can
work
> > to either clear the problem on the original XP installation, or do a
clean
> > XP installation to that partition.
>
> Well, at this point, I don't have another partition that I can install
> XP to. I have 98 in a nice small partition and Linux, well, we'll just
> say that Linux is just staying where it is. the other 65 gigs belong
> to WinXP and only to WinXP. What I plan on having to do is installing
> NTFS for 98 and then using Win98 to burn all my sensitive data to CD,
> then reformatting that partition and reinstalling (though it'll be a
> shame to lose all that e-mail. Not to mention my father will kill me
> when he finds all his e-mail gone.)
>
> > As for 'Exact' descriptions, they really are necessary.  The screen
display
> > description is important to know whether the image is distorted in the
"way
> > it is displayed'' (as distortion on a tv screen might look with all the
> > picture squeezed into one corner) or is distorted in "what information
is
> > displayed" (as in all the pixels are displayed in their normal positon
on
> > the monitor screen, but the wrong information is displayed;  most are
black
> > and only a few are displayed; the display circuitry is ok, but the wrong
> > information is being sent.)
>
> I understand the need for exact descriptions, and I wholly support
> your endeavor to help me, it's just... does the screen's appearance at
> first sight really matter that much? I mean, it was only a few pixels
> wide, I couldn't see anything but some blue, and I spent about 5
> minutes tops on that screen. Then I restarted and went back to
> pseudo-normal, and by pseudo-normal I mean farked up. It might be
> important in some way I don't understand, but aside from that, it
> seems that people here are fixating way too much on such a minute
> detail that only happened for a brief period of time and was never
> seen again.
>
> I'm gracious that people are helping me. I don't mean to sound
> ungrateful. It's just slightly annoying how people seem to pay more
> attention to that than more pressing issues with this OS. However, if
> that information is really important in a way I don't understand yet,
> by all means, let me know, so I can stop griping about it. :-)
>
> -T.J.

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