Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Weird matrix stuff on desktop....

  • 30-08-2006 6:04pm
    #1
    dragona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭


    Okay will post a pic in a while when it happens again, but....

    Bottom left on my desktop is a small grey rectangle. If I click on it, it zooms up to the top left hand quarter of my screen into a square. Dark(not quite black) backround, with lots of blue matrix type letters and numbers sqiggling up and down. What the bloody hell is it??


Comments

  • #2
    mr_disc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭mr_disc


    Follow the white rabbit .... Follow the white rabbit :p


  • #3
    SystemError51
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭SystemError51


    dragona wrote:
    Okay will post a pic in a while when it happens again, but....

    Bottom left on my desktop is a small grey rectangle. If I click on it, it zooms up to the top left hand quarter of my screen into a square. Dark(not quite black) backround, with lots of blue matrix type letters and numbers sqiggling up and down. What the bloody hell is it??


    To be honest with you, I have never heard something quite like it before. However, it my thinking would be, that it might be some little spyware program or one of these things you can download somewhere. Check the list in Add/Remove Programs for suspicious entries. Or use a Spyware checker, such as Spybot.


  • #4
    dragona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭dragona


    Thanks - very strange. I have Spybot, System Mechanic, Trend PC-cillin, and they have found nothing.It happens intermittently, so I am waiting for it to post a pic:mad:
    And mr_disc-- I am not nuts yet!


  • #5
    nobodythere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭nobodythere


    Would be very interested in a screenshot. Any unusual running processes?


  • #6
    dragona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭dragona


    No...
    Hasn't bloody well done it today.......YET


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    dragona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭dragona


    Ok folks- I have waited and waited and it hasn't happened.Mystery.


  • #8
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Post up a log using hijackthis and some of us will trawl through it for you if you wish.


  • #9
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    dragona wrote:
    No...
    Hasn't bloody well done it today.......YET
    mum's the word ?

    try in safe mode
    procexp from www.sysinternals.com will give you more info on the processes

    check/change the screen saver


  • #10
    nobodythere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭nobodythere


    There.... I fixed it :p one more down!


  • #11
    Pr0deh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Pr0deh


    grasshopa wrote:
    There.... I fixed it :p one more down!

    Would it be possible to tell us what it was or how you sorted it? I have the same problem atm and this forum thread has been the only lead i've had so far...


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,989 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    It wasnt opened as a flash addvertisement or something of the like from a web page by any chance, was it?


Advertisement