I was at home on telephone dial up logging onto my internet server when this
happened. I received a screen pop up message that told me a program was
downloading (that I tried to stop to no avail).
I then had a very bad computer crash. When I finally sorted it all out the
screen was shrunk and the texture was grainy. All of the obvious fixes in
the "Display" screens in the "Control Panel" in "Settings" did not work. It
appears that whatever was trying to download corrupted my default VGA
drivers.
I am more curious to know if this has happened to anyone else on the Vanagon
list. That would tell me if the list had a rampant virus doing this. I run
Norton Anti-Virus all of the time and scan for viruses often. Also, I update
my virus inventory a couple times a week on the Norton website. All of this
has kept me virus free until this time. That is assuming that this was
caused by a virus.

Best regards,

Alan Ruffalo
88 Westy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Pollard" <poll7356@uidaho.edu>
To: "Alan Ruffalo" <aruffalo@SPRYNET.COM>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: Has this happened to any on the list

> this type of thing happens when your computer is part of a network- like
> your computer at work- where you don't reallly have much say over what
> happens to it. Other than that i am lost.
> cheers
> m
>
>
> Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
> Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
> University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Alan Ruffalo wrote:
>
> > When I logged on yesterday - a program downloaded and rewrote my video
> > driver which shrunk my monitor screen one inch all the way around. All
of
> > the obvious fixes don't seem to work and now the default message tells
me
> > that the correct VGA driver is not being used in my laptop computer. I
used
> > my rescue disks to correct problem but to no avail.
> > Has anyone else on the list experienced this?
> >
> > Alan Ruffalo
> > 88 Westy
> >
>