I have a CTX 17" Flat Panel Monitor. It is roughly 6 months old.
Until recently I've been very happy with it. Recently, these small
graphic images started to appear. If I leave a webpage open without
refreshing they will appear all over the screen. My primary web
browser is Firefox. I am under the impression that something is
drawing to the screen, meaning that it seems that this may be
malicious software. I have run EZ Trust antivirus but my system shows
up as clean. These "images" look like very small words that I can't
read b/c the font is too small, but it may just be about 20 very small
little verticle lines side by side. It seems like these things first
show up around the pointer. As I said, if I refresh the screen they
will be eliminated but they always reappear. These little graphics
are also appearing right to my desktop, but I always have internet on.
Usually the small images are green or purple. |
Request for Question Clarification by
sublime1-ga
on
01 Sep 2005 13:40 PDT
A screenshot might be very helpful, in this case
sublime1-ga
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Clarification of Question by
johnc1965-ga
on
01 Sep 2005 19:01 PDT
I have a screen shot, if you e-mail me at Jon.E.Cakes@gmail.com I can
e-mail it to you. I don't know how to post a screen shot here.
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Request for Question Clarification by
sublime1-ga
on
01 Sep 2005 20:23 PDT
John...
The GA guidelines prohibit us from having personal contact
with customers, and the may remove any question with an
email address in it, so you may end up having to repost
this question.
As for sharing an image here, most people get a free account
at, say, PhotoBucket.com and post a link here.
PhotoBucket:
http://www.photobucket.com/
sublime1-ga
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Clarification of Question by
johnc1965-ga
on
02 Sep 2005 12:49 PDT
Here's a link to the screen shot
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a23/CynicalJon/screenshot.jpg
I hope this helps.
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Request for Question Clarification by
sublime1-ga
on
02 Sep 2005 13:49 PDT
john...
Very interesting. I've never seen anything quite like that,
and images or words associated with malware would tend to
be more visible and convey some meaning (however useless).
My first thought is that it's a video failure of some kind,
perhaps related to your relatively new monitor. Since it's
only 6 months old, and likely still under warranty, I'd
strongly recommend taking it back to where you purchased it
and see if they can reproduce the problem in-house and then
replace your monitor. You might also want to let them know
what brand and model of video card you have installed.
Let me know where that takes you...
sublime1-ga
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Clarification of Question by
johnc1965-ga
on
02 Sep 2005 16:01 PDT
I can't easily take it back as I bought it online. I will track down
my receipts and call the merchant.
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Request for Question Clarification by
sublime1-ga
on
02 Sep 2005 22:10 PDT
john...
I should emphasize that it's equally possible that your video
card is failing, especially since the monitor is not that old,
and you probably didn't upgrade your video card when you bought
the new monitor. It's also possible that the card, being older
is not up to the demands placed on it by the new monitor.
If it's more than a couple of years old, it might be wise to
consider that it's the video card before you go shipping your
monitor back to the provider. One way to test it is to install
your card temporarily into someone else's computer. Another
way is to look for video benchmarking utilities or diagnostics
such as SiSoft Sandra.
sublime1-ga
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Clarification of Question by
johnc1965-ga
on
05 Sep 2005 10:41 PDT
Si-Soft Sandra revealed nothing. I am going to hook up another
monitor to see if the images continue to appear. I should also add
that when viewing an MPEG file in the windows media player these
images appear more rapidly. At the moment I am leaning toward the
video card also -- it is an ATI RADEON 9100. I am going to try
another monitor.
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