[Hidden-tech] weird OS "glitches"

[Chris Hoogendyk]

Tom / Reelife Productions wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> hoping someone out there may be able to help.  Just yesterday I 
> started noticing weird black boxes surrounding anything that I click 
> on whether it be a file on my desktop or around the perimeter of a 
> webpage, etc.  it goes away when I click on something else...but today 
> it seems getting worse.  I'm working on a very new mac pro (desktop) 
> with OS 10.5. This weird behavior would indicate  ... dare even 
> mention the word.... "virus".
>
> ALSO- when I click on the apple in top left corner - i see that 
> "Restart", "Shutdown" and "Logout" are listed TWICE in the drop down 
> menu! scary stuff?
>
> The only things I can think of that might be related is
> 1) I've downloaded a few small utility apps in the last few weeks from 
> version tracker that may be of questionable stability... 
> 2) I started using spaces pretty heavily and noticed some 
> screen anomalies, so I stopped.
> 3) I turned on "web sharing" in the preferences for a few hours-  a 
> couple days ago 
>
> I tried disk utility but it didn't find anything ...  any hints? 
> hopefully it won't get worse? I've attached 2 screen grabs to show you 
> what I mean.

More likely some option in the Universal Access part of System 
Preferences that got turned on by accident. I've seen that happen 
before, but I don't know how it happened. I presumed the person got 
tripped up over some command option key combination that accidentally 
turned it on. Anyway, easy to turn off if that's it.

If that's not it, what were the utility apps? If one of them was a 
screen grab, you might have activated it, and it is highlighting what it 
would grab.


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