files. If you have a professional version of windows, who has write
access to the folder?
Do you reboot the computer between uses and users? There may have been
at least one corrupted program or malware program in memory when this
occurred. Was it left over from a previous user?
Virus? Spyware? Rootkit? Kids had a kinky friend over? Your guess is as
good as mine. Good luck on the scans.
I personally would have called it an ODD picture and left the type to
everyone's imagination.
DragonFly
On 9/26/2011 10:04 PM, John wrote:
> Thanks to Vince for the response re Windows 7.
>
> Now for this one for which I cannot work out an answer.
>
> I was scanning sequentially a number of recipes into my recipe folder. I
> was using Canon Multipass which came with my eight year old Canon MPC190
> multi function printer scanner etc. I have done this many times before
> and the session seemed to be proceeding as always. As each page was
> scanned it remained on the screen in a perhaps one eighth screen image
> and each succeeeding one overlapped the previous one until I had nine or
> ten images of the scanned docos sitting on the screen. Then another
> image appeared as having been scanned - it was porno - a transexual and
> was an image I had never seen before. I immediately checked the scanner
> but the doco that was on the platen was what it should have been which
> was a recipe.
>
> I was a bit thrown by this but I did notice that it was a bitmap image
> which is a format I never use altho it is a format that Multipass
> initially offers as a saver. I minized everything and did a search of
> all bitmap images on my computer and I found the original sitting
> somewhere deep in the C drive next to another rather more unsettling
> image of a preteen girl - nothing gross but semi nude.
>
> I brought them up in a non image mode - it was either Word, Notepad or
> Wordpad - I searched around until I could find a format that would allow
> me to delete the language before I deleted the file - which I did. And I
> then did the usual steps for clearing the computer. Unfortunately I did
> not check the properties as to when it had arrived on the computer.
>
> I don't know how the images got on my computer. Yes, other people, my 12
> and 14 year old grandsons have used it but while they're not saints that
> sort of porno would not be their thing. The only thing I can think of
> was a couple of years ago (which I told the Group about) when I got a
> virus which bombarded the computer with porno images along with an offer
> to remove the virus if money changed hands. I know I got rid of the
> disabling virus but I now think it left some of its nasy bits behind.
>
> However, regardlss of how they got there, why did the image appear out
> of nowhere as a scanned image, in exactly the same format as the
> documents I was scanning sequentially? And why did no other bmp image
> appear. Nothing funny has happened since. But then again, nothing funny
> had happened previously.
>
> Like to know if anyone has any ideas.
>
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