Hello, Several weeks ago I contracted a virus or something that causes the screen on my browsers, Notepad, Wordpad, Dos Prompt, and so on to jump all over the place. Reading the news has become impossible. Typing is a nightmare.
Avast says that it is not there. Microsoft Security Essentials says that it is not there. Could someone please point me in the right directions so I can come up with a solution to fix my problem.
I made log files with Hijackthis and Winpatrol and reviewed them. Nothing unusual was listed in either log.
I ran Malwarebytes after doing a thorough scan with Avast. It didn’t find anything. No you cannot run Avast and MSE at the same time. I was hoping that Microsoft’s anti virus would find my problem. I stopped Avast and ran MSE. Avast is running now. I guess the 7 hour download for the Microsoft product was a waste of time, but I never would of known that if I hadn’t of spent the time doing it. My other computer runs on Linux. I suppose Linux really is the better choice. will run Malwarebytes again just to see if anything different turns up. Thank you for your suggestion. Quite often second attempts are much more fruitful that first attempts.
How do you mean ‘jump all over the place’?
Are you sure this is not a monitor or monitor cable error?
You may need to provide more details anyway.
Such as system specs - (like Pondus has provided at the bottom of his posts - e.g Acer L5100. AMD 64X2, etc…)
What browser are you using?
Do you mean the screen jumps when you move the mouse or click yr keyboard?
What about when the computer is idle with just yr desktop showing, without browsers, notepad, wordpad, does the screen still jump around?
Or do you need to open a program before the erratic behavior starts up?
Edit - I’m guessing you checked Display Adaptors in Device Manager
The virus only causes those programs that display a scroll bar to jump around the screen. It affects all programs that display a scroll bar. It’s especially difficult to type in code using Notepad when the screen is bouncing all over the place. It doesn’t begin right away. Sometimes the screen begins to jump in just a few minutes. Sometimes it begins to jump after several hours. Minimizing the program to taskbar is helpful. Minimize to taskbar for a few minutes, restore, jumping does not begin again for several minutes. Holding the scroll bar in place is not helpful. I ran malwarebytes a second time. It didn’t find anything. Hijackthis found one thing that is suspicious to me, O2 - BHO: (no name) - {60270dc7-9ea0-472f-9b77-66652c06246e} - (no file). That’s probably nothing. It will take some time to learn to understand that programs results.
Dell Optiplex, Pentium 4 2.5gigahertz, 2 gigabytes ram, XP Pro Service Pack 3, Avast Home 4.8, WinPatrol 12.1.2007.5
Firefox 3.6, Opera 10, IE7
RootkitRevealer is an advanced rootkit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT 4 and higher and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit.
Don’t worry, this a Video Adapter problem. It occured to me too this winter, but now it’s Ok. At the time it occured, I was using VIPRE Antivirus+Antispyware and I thought too that this was a virus but soon when niether VIPRE, MBAM, Spybot nor Avira could catch it, I understood that this was an adapter problem. Your problem is far more advanced because my problem resulted in continious refreshing of the screen during browsing in Windows Explorer. It’s Ok after I had reinstalled my Video Card drivers and gave some time to my adapters. Now I am running Avast! 5.0.418 and feel a lot safer!