The Digital Community forum is pretty dead, so I'm going to post this here as well. You blokes are pretty tech savy.

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Okay, so, I have these really ugly verticle lines going up and down my screen and I can't figure out for the life of me why. It just happened. I left the computer for maybe 20 minutes, came back and there they were. There has been something strange going on prior to this. I have been getting a message popping up every so often (the message and the lines are shown in the attatched image) that I think is an internet advertisement trying to pop up, but failing as sometimes they do pop up randomly. At first I thought spyware. Makes sense right? I'm not sure if it's related to the verticle lines or not, but you never know. Well I purged the comp using both Adaware and Norton several times and still nothing. Anti-virus was run twice: nothing. I even tried repairing windows via the CD and nothing happened. I really can't for the life of me figure this out. Any help would be appreciated. These lines are really ****ing ugly and the pop up notice every 10 minutes is aggrivating.
Seriously, help. It's annoying. X_X