Sigh

[bobquasit]

My monitor no longer displays the color red. Red comes out black, and everything is dark and dull, tending to bluish.

At a guess, the "red gun" in my monitor is no longer firing.

I am screwed.

On a separate note, yesterday and today I did a heroic task: cleaning out my father's computer. Ad-Aware found 251 contaminations, including over 60 registry entries and a process. It crashed when it tried to clean them.

I installed Spybot Search & Destroy, and it did a GREAT job - I recommend it highly. Also Spyware Blaster. Those two, plus the newest Ad-Aware afterwards, cleaned the system and seem to have secured it. You wouldn't believe how bad his system had been - constant pop-ups, to the point that it was unusable. Now it's just fine.

If only my monitor was...I'll have to dig out an old one tomorrow, and hope it works.

Gonna be hard to go back to 15 inches...

Comments

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

A 15" screen is what I deal with all the time... but then again, I'm usually on a notebook and not a desktop (and Cindy's desktop is only a 17" screen.. unlike her old one which this one replaced two years ago, which had something like a 21" screen). Kiralee is the one that has a BIG screen, on her MAC (She has the extra wide flat screen, the original one they came out some years ago, so she can edit two pages of text at the same time).

Sounds like the system cleanup went well. Cindy's machine has problems with this all the time, because she keeps using online tv schedule listings and most of the ones out there have adware stuff built in.