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Screensaver applies itself

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Name: Heather
Date: July 27, 2003 at 15:06:32 Pacific
OS: me
CPU/Ram: ?
Comment:

recently my screensaver has been activating without it being user applied, Thanks if you can help.



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Name: estatik
Date: July 27, 2003 at 20:26:58 Pacific
Reply:

Are you saying that you have the screensaver disabled
in the display properties, yet it activates on it own?
Might be a virus or a trojan. Scan your system with your
updated anti-virus prog and do some scans online as
well.

Anti-virus scans online:
http://housecall.antivirus.com
www.ravantivirus.com/scan
www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/
https://testzone.secunia.com/online_antivirus/

Do a trojan scan at:
www.trojanscan.com
www.dominique-peterson.com/security/trojanscan.php4
http://scan.sygate.com/pretrojanscan.html

HTH

estatik


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