From: "Thomas W. Brown" 
Subject: Re: Windows problem ...
Date: 1999/09/13
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Nicolas Goosen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I Have an annoying problem. It strikes
> any time, but not all the time, and doesn't
> go away till I shut down - and it results
> in my text looking like it does in the picture.
> (I know it looks like a badly encoded .jpg, but
> that's what my text will look like! I captured it
> with PaintShop Pro, which I had to navigate in
> the dark.)
> Suddenly my computer will forget to repaint
> all the text it writes to the screen.
> 
> I've scanned with Norton AntiVirus with the
> September 7th definitions and scanned
> for windows errors with Norton WinDoctor,
> but found nothing.
> 
> Does any one know what's wrong?
> 

I've had this happen to me too -- it usually means that your program (or
someone's program at least) has thoroughly hosed the data segment in one
or more system DLLs (USER32, GDI32, etc.).  This could be due to a
resource leak that eventually depletes the data segments of the DLLs or
a memory-smash of some sort.

It is most likely not a virus or problem with the system itself.  First
step is to find the culprit, which piece of software causes this to
happen.  If you are doing your own development I would start with your
software (not to say that you in particular are writting buggy software,
that is where I start for myself too).  If the problem is in your
software then you have to track down the problem.  If not then you'll
want to get in touch with tech. support for the offending software.

-- Thomas Brown
   tbrown@softbook.com