Monitors go blank - have to reboot - could this be a virus?

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Monitors go blank - have to reboot - could this be a virus? suzbluii 07-07-2006
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?c3V6Ymx1aWk=?= on July 7, 2006, 11:56 am
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Over the past 24 hours two of the computers in our company have had the
monitors go blank while using Internet Explorer. The monitor light in the
bottom right hand corner goes from green to amber and we have to reboot by
turning the PC off and on again.
McAfee was running latest definitions. No viruses found.
Ran Ad-Aware – 63 critical objects found and removed. (FYI … up until about
4 months ago – every time that I would run Ad-Aware it would find no more
than 5 to 10 objects. The past four or five times that I have run it – it
finds over 50 objects.)
Ran Stinger – nothing detected.
Any suggestions?


Posted by David H. Lipman on July 7, 2006, 5:34 pm
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| Over the past 24 hours two of the computers in our company have had the
| monitors go blank while using Internet Explorer. The monitor light in the
| bottom right hand corner goes from green to amber and we have to reboot by
| turning the PC off and on again.
| McAfee was running latest definitions. No viruses found.
| Ran Ad-Aware – 63 critical objects found and removed. (FYI … up until about
| 4 months ago – every time that I would run Ad-Aware it would find no more
| than 5 to 10 objects. The past four or five times that I have run it – it
| finds over 50 objects.)
| Ran Stinger – nothing detected.
| Any suggestions?

Look at the hardware and/or the OS. It is not the consequence of malware.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Posted by Scherbina Vladimir on July 10, 2006, 6:25 am
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First point. There're cases when this problem is caused by malware.
Especially when malware is represented as a rootkit.

Second point. Most of applications uses GDI functions - the same as browsers
do. I don't know about IE (btw I find bugs in IE from time to time) but
FireFox had a bug in XP SP2 when you type a huge string in address bar - it
caused crash in GDI function and video driver was BSODing after some time.

--
Vladimir

>
> | Over the past 24 hours two of the computers in our company have had the
> | monitors go blank while using Internet Explorer. The monitor light in
> the
> | bottom right hand corner goes from green to amber and we have to reboot
> by
> | turning the PC off and on again.
> | McAfee was running latest definitions. No viruses found.
> | Ran Ad-Aware – 63 critical objects found and removed. (FYI … up until
> about
> | 4 months ago – every time that I would run Ad-Aware it would find no
> more
> | than 5 to 10 objects. The past four or five times that I have run it –
> it
> | finds over 50 objects.)
> | Ran Stinger – nothing detected.
> | Any suggestions?
>
> Look at the hardware and/or the OS. It is not the consequence of malware.
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>



Posted by David H. Lipman on July 10, 2006, 4:59 pm
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| First point. There're cases when this problem is caused by malware.
| Especially when malware is represented as a rootkit.
|
| Second point. Most of applications uses GDI functions - the same as browsers
| do. I don't know about IE (btw I find bugs in IE from time to time) but
| FireFox had a bug in XP SP2 when you type a huge string in address bar - it
| caused crash in GDI function and video driver was BSODing after some time.
|

I *strongly* doubt this to be the case, even if it was a RootKit Trojan.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Posted by antioch on July 10, 2006, 9:01 am
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Response spliced/intertwined/in-line
Hope you don't mind :-)



> Ran Ad-Aware - 63 critical objects found and removed. (FYI . up until
> about
> 4 months ago - every time that I would run Ad-Aware it would find no more
> than 5 to 10 objects. The past four or five times that I have run it - it
> finds over 50 objects.)

I used to get 10-20 criticals found by AdAware each day on my home computer
and I practice very save Hex.
Since the below was installed I get disappointed if it finds one in a week.
Just a thought, as the below stops the little darlings from getting onto the
computer to start with.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Rgds
Antioch


> Ran Stinger - nothing detected.
> Any suggestions?
>



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