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Sigh
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...
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...