04-15-2025, 11:18 PM
@JRace I actually had one which did something similar. It basically copied the desktop as is, and just left it alone while the screen remained hidden. Every thirty seconds, it checked a random check to see if it should process or not.
IF it processed, it made a copy of the screen, mirrored it upside-down/left-to-right, and then fullscreened the hidden screen. The effect was once every X minutes, it rotated whatever you were working on 180-degrees and then became unresponsive for a brief thirty seconds. Not long enough for anyone to explode and throw the machine out the door, or force a reboot and lose whatever they were working on, but long enough to annoy them...
And then it was gone, with no help on the internet or anywhere else about the "Windows Glitches and Mirrors my work" bug.
I installed that thing on *everyone's* PC that I had a chance to pop it on around here. It was funny as heck how widespread "WSM.exe" became -- and it somehow ended up even invading our local school's computers. (WSM = Windows Screen Mirror)
Wasn't even a real virus as it did nothing to replicate itself, but once the kids around here got their hands on it, THEY made it viral. LOL!
IF it processed, it made a copy of the screen, mirrored it upside-down/left-to-right, and then fullscreened the hidden screen. The effect was once every X minutes, it rotated whatever you were working on 180-degrees and then became unresponsive for a brief thirty seconds. Not long enough for anyone to explode and throw the machine out the door, or force a reboot and lose whatever they were working on, but long enough to annoy them...
And then it was gone, with no help on the internet or anywhere else about the "Windows Glitches and Mirrors my work" bug.
I installed that thing on *everyone's* PC that I had a chance to pop it on around here. It was funny as heck how widespread "WSM.exe" became -- and it somehow ended up even invading our local school's computers. (WSM = Windows Screen Mirror)
Wasn't even a real virus as it did nothing to replicate itself, but once the kids around here got their hands on it, THEY made it viral. LOL!