Virus that affects monitor pincusion & size?

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Last night my computer was working fine. Today I turned it on and the
monitor is all screwed up. The "Pincusion" is squeezed in on the sides and
the Horizontal Size is pulled in so that the display is only 2/3 of the
original size. I ran Norton Anti Virus (current definitions) and it says I'm
clean. I've also got the router firewall up, Norton Worm protection on,
Spyware Blaster and Adaware on. The last thing I was doing was searching for
information on snakes on the internet (helping my son with a research paper).
A couple of sites were a little strange and seemed to load funny but I
didn't think anything of it at the time.

If anyone has any ideas of what caused this problem with my monitor and how
to fix it, I would be VERY grateful. Thank you.
 
How old is the monitor? If you put it on another PC does it work fine? Is it
ok once the monitor warms up?

No virus there tho ...
 
Mackenrick said:
Last night my computer was working fine. Today I turned it on and the
monitor is all screwed up. The "Pincusion" is squeezed in on the sides and
the Horizontal Size is pulled in so that the display is only 2/3 of the
original size. I ran Norton Anti Virus (current definitions) and it says I'm
clean. I've also got the router firewall up, Norton Worm protection on,
Spyware Blaster and Adaware on. The last thing I was doing was searching for
information on snakes on the internet (helping my son with a research paper).
A couple of sites were a little strange and seemed to load funny but I
didn't think anything of it at the time.

If anyone has any ideas of what caused this problem with my monitor and how
to fix it, I would be VERY grateful. Thank you.
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In all likelihood, the monitor has gone bad. There is no virus that
can cause hardware damage to a monitor.Hardware can fail at any time.
What happens when you use the positioning, sizing, and shaping controls
on the front of the monitor? What happens when you re-install the
latest WinXP-specific drivers for your video adapter from its
manufacturer's web site? Have you tried a different monitor?


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Bruce Chambers said:
In all likelihood, the monitor has gone bad. There is no virus that
can cause hardware damage to a monitor.Hardware can fail at any time.
What happens when you use the positioning, sizing, and shaping
controls on the front of the monitor? What happens when you
re-install the latest WinXP-specific drivers for your video adapter
from its manufacturer's web site? Have you tried a different monitor?


Bruce Chambers
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While I would not agree that it is not possible for a virus to cause
a monitor problem (if you run at the wrong scan rates, you can
destroy a monitor), I would agree that the most likely cause
in this case is a failing monitor. Especially in this case when the
failure occurred when it was turned on (the most likely time for
a hardware failure is turn-on ... applies to men also ;-) )

mikey
 
Thanks for all the replies. I had tried readjusting the pincusion, etc.
using the controls on the front of the monitor but they had no effect... not
functioning at all. I couldn't change any of the settings. I was able to
connect to the internet and post this question but I was afraid of doing
anything else for fear of making it harder to recover the computer in case it
was some kind of virus. After reading some of these replies, I got brave
enough to do some poking around and checked the monitor settings. For some
reason the refresh rate had changed from 85 to 60. I don't know what
difference that makes with the pincusion of the monitor but when I changed it
back to 85, the monitor returned to almost normal. I had to readjust the
overall display size a little and recenter it but it works fine now. Very
strange... can't figure it out. It was fine when I turned it off and screwed
up when I turn it on. Like many of you mentioned.. maybe the monitor is just
getting tired... it's about three years old. Thanks again for the replies.
 
I had the same problem after getting affected with a virus
Antivir calles it " Exploit EXP/MS05-013"
I got affected by visiting a website that contained this virus,
just opening the webpage without dl'ing anything got me affected.
So i formatted my drive, when i was reinstalling winxp home my screen
resolution also resized to 2/3 of the normal size. Now i have it set to
maximum size but i lost a few millimeters...
 
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