Screen on screen virus
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When you turn it on, how soon do you see signs of the ahem infection?" Me - "Sir, with LED displays, it's very hard to see damage to a screen when it is turned off. SU - "Well ya see, the screen isn't broken, because when we turn it off, you can't see a crack!" he says, with all the pride of a user identifying the problem before tech support can. It's very likely that your screen is actually broken." "Well sir, that's certainly not an infection we've ever seen here. Me - At this point it's all I can do to not laugh aloud over the phone.
#Screen on screen virus cracked#
There's this big line across the screen and all these funny colors, and my wife searched the internet and found all these other people that had this Cracked Screen Virus, so we know it's an infection. Still with me, son? Well, we come back and open the lid and turn it on, and we're infected with this virus, and we know it's an infection because it wasnt there when we closed the lid. SU - "Have you ever heard of the Cracked Screen Virus? Because what happened, you see, is that my wife was using the laptop, and closed the lid and it went into sleep mode. "I'm ready for a challenge, what seems to be the issue." SU - "Weeeeelllll I'm going to really test your tech support skills today!" Me - "Hello, this is Crazy-Jake with Herp Derp, how can I help you today?" $89.So I work for a national tech support counter service and received a call today from a Special User.
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All in all it was an interesting case, but I really wasn't surprised to discover that AOL software was at the root of it all. So, I disabled the sidebar after confirming with the customer (she replied: "what is a sidebar?") and problem was solved. It had been launching, crashing, and reloading itself into the sidebar every single time the screen flashed. "AOL Daily Scoop Widget" was listed in the box an estimated 10,000 times and NOTHING else. In this list, I had discovered the culprit. The second the process for the sidebar was stopped, the screen stopped flickering and returned to normal and I got an error message on the screen to the effect of: "One of the widgets in the sidebar has encountered an error." with a list of the widgets getting the error.
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Well, knowing the Vista sidebar for the POS that it is, I end the process hoping to free up some CPU and help the computer finish whatever the hell it is trying to do with explorer (also note, killing explorer and relaunching it did not help). I noticed that "Sidebar.exe" was using 84% of available CPU and holding steady. Eventually I was able to launch the task manager and get to the processes tab to see what the eff was happening on that level. Needless to say, this made it difficult to diagnose.
#Screen on screen virus windows#
Each time, the windows on the screen look to be re-sizing and an explorer toolbar thing is trying to load on the left side of the screen. Explorer looks like it is crashing a relaunching over and over and over. After a few minutes my screen reloads and I see what is happening. So I set my remote connection client to autoconnect on reboot and throw her into NM. Other than that, and this computer being a Vista x86 with 1GB RAM, nothing seems to be wrong with the computer. So we do our usual virus removal process and come up with the only hit being the babylon toolbar. Sure enough, the issue isn't present in SMWN. The customer being convinced that this is a virus accepts our fee and we boot into safe mode. is the power light blinking, does it happen during the boot process, etc.) we determine that it isn't hardware related. Ok, so this lady calls up and has a strange issue: her screen is flickering and she isn't able to do anything. This call was just one of our usual "Something is happening that is abnormal, it must be a virus" calls. We also support our own brand of AV, but that is a whole other can of worms. Some background, I work in a call center providing remote support solutions for various ISPs.
This is going to be a silly one, but I think you guys would appreciate the uniqueness of it all.