Windows XP forum: "Bugs" crawling around on screen

I have no idea. Do you mean some software is making small bug like images appear to crawl around on the display screen?

Or do you mean actual, living, small insects crawling on the monitor display screen?

Please show us a screen print if it is bug like images. ImageShack will let you upload an image and post the url address here.

What do you use to protect your computer from viruses, spyware, and hackers?

Mark

Right click the Taskbar, select Task Manager, then look in either the Applications tab or the Processes tab, see what is running when these appear.

You sure this isn't some sort of screen saver?

Mark

that is a screensaver

right click on desktop and look for properties and then screensaver (windows xp)

and you shoudl see the screensaver there.. should be that or i don't know what it is

Hi yes this is an old screen saver just change your Screen Saver and it will be fine.

It sounds like you are having the same prblem as me, have you tried an anti-spyware prog?

I am having the same problem with this sudden screensaver that popped up on my computer yesterday! After the screen saver appeared my computer went dead, or shall I say turned off! I ran a new spyware on my computer and antivirus, and now the bugs are back, I'm not sure what this mean, does it mean someone could maybe hacking into my computer etc.? HELP!!!

Happened to me first time today . . . Happened when a client opened an email link which downloaded a rogue spyware program called WinIFixer. I thought I had uninstalled the darn stuff and ran a SpyBot scan which also had some deep reg hooks. Then ran AVG which found some older Trogans which had been on there for "who knows" how long. Still the anoying bugs pop up after about a minute of activity. Yes, it sound just like a screensaver but "none" is the scrsvr selection. It appears that a file called ctfmona.exe played part of the infeciton ... still looking for a fix to kill those pesky bugs . . .
Running Dell GX280
2.8gb Intel
XP sp2
1 gb ram
40 gb hd

Found the blackster.scr, ctfmona.exe, and ctfmonb.exe -- did not even think about checking for those older .scr files and did notice those ctfmon files running in memory -- just did not go that extra step. Thanks a bunch -- scanned by two spywares and two antivirus progs -- NOW, I HOPE, Things are cleaned out -- was getting a bit embarassing -- everytime the bugs would start demolition and trek across the screen, the client had to imvite more and more people from down the hall just to gross 'em out!

Thanks!!

I had the same problem after a spyware invasion. Everything was cleaned up except for those crawling bugs. Your solution worked. Thx man.

was it a screensaver or virii or WHAT ...

after all this your net price *REQUIRES* you to tell us what it was

I have same problem, i have windows XP, it starts as soon as windows started.it is not detected as virus, but i got an adware warning.

Thanks so much for your advice. I spent so many hours running virus and spyware updates all to no avail. Your instructions worked perfectly! Thanks again

A friend of mine was in a panic, had the bugs on his screen. The wallpaper was blue with a nasty message in a red box (can't remember the exact text, but something about this machine is infected with viruses or something). The malware also installed a supposed virus software package. When I ran it, it reported that it found over 20 viruses, and wouldn't remove them until you paid for the software. When I went to remove the fake virus software, It gave a nasty message along the lines it would reload all nasty stuff it had removed if you cancel with them, etc. After struggling for many hours with this thing, I finally restored from a saved restore point prior to the installation of this thing.
The bugs acted somewhat like a screen saver but they weren't really a screen saver. It was a really evil piece of malware to scare the daylights out of people and try to get them to send money.

Found BLACKSTER.SCR-0DD5803B.pf in C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch
and
blackster in C:\WINDOWS\system32
and deleted