Not so much a virus as a quirky screen saver.
Have you checked your screen saver? Is it set to random?
-----Original Message----- From: C.Huijgen [mailto:c.huijgen@casema.nl] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 5:40 PM To: suse-kde@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-kde] Leaky KDE? Spontaneous SPAM as screensaver.
Steve Kratz and Dan Freed, greetings I will not repeat everything that was written, as the suse-kde site is ordered by thread. This way I win some space. Of course it is partially lost by this explanation and by writing "greetings" in stead of "hi". Anyway, I thank you, especially Steve Kratz, for your reply. Long ago I suffered from a virus that manifested itself by slowing down the system. So when I noticed such an effect on KDE (still unexplained!) I did not like it much. It now appears that SuSe build in an innocent virus by way of practical joke. C.Huygen
Have you checked your screen saver? Is it set to random?
Yes, some of those screensavers effectively cause a DoS of the system. The simple one which just moves some text across the screen has unfortunately been removed in favour of much fancier cr*p. Make sure it's not set to "random" if you keep your computer busy while you're away from it. The screensaver test function works well.
Volker
On Friday 06 August 2004 04:16, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Have you checked your screen saver? Is it set to random?
Yes, some of those screensavers effectively cause a DoS of the system. The simple one which just moves some text across the screen has unfortunately been removed in favour of much fancier cr*p. Make sure it's not set to "random" if you keep your computer busy while you're away from it. The screensaver test function works well.
Hi Volker,
well, I enjoy the "random" setting. None of the screensavers cause any problems on any of my systems. Some look a little weird, ok, but if I don't like them, with a little move of the mouse they go away.
This way I could see most of the screensavers, which I would never have taken the time to explore otherwise. Some are really nice. We have the choice!
Regards, Matt
Volker
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well, I enjoy the "random" setting. None of the screensavers cause any problems on any of my systems. Some look a little weird, ok, but if I don't like them, with a little move of the mouse they go away.
Well, the point of a screensaver is to save the phosphor while I'm not there. Obviously, while I'm not there, I don't need to see anything. :) When I leave jobs running to get finished I don't need nonsense to steal CPU, especially while I'm not there. Some of those savers are a performance whack on slower machines. Obviously you chose what you like, I was just a little miffed they removed the no-CPU one.
Volker
On Friday 06 August 2004 12:52, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
well, I enjoy the "random" setting. None of the screensavers cause any problems on any of my systems. Some look a little weird, ok, but if I don't like them, with a little move of the mouse they go away.
Well, the point of a screensaver is to save the phosphor while I'm not there. Obviously, while I'm not there, I don't need to see anything. :) When I leave jobs running to get finished I don't need nonsense to steal CPU, especially while I'm not there. Some of those savers are a performance whack on slower machines. Obviously you chose what you like, I was just a little miffed they removed the no-CPU one.
Volker
yes, OK, point taken.
Using LCDs I just switch them off completely anyway when I go for a longer time, to save LCD life, a screensaver would not really help.
Have fun, Matt
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