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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« on: March 22, 2014, 12:56 PM »

Yes/No questions:

-4wd (March 19, 2014, 08:14 PM)

1) Have you tried another monitor?

Yes, just today. I have seen the same situation of my system: good photos appear good and changed photo appear changed. Therefore my monitor doesn't mislead

2) Does it only affect the images you have modified?

I don't know. I fine-tune all the photos I download

3) ... Does your image program actually save the modifications to the image

Yes, sure

4) Have you tried saving the modified image to a different name?

Yes. Same results

4) If you answered YES to question (4): When the change occurred, did you then compare the original image with the modified image using a program, not your eyes, (eg. Beyond Compare, AntiDupl, XnView, etc)?

No. Spontaneous changes of photos are evident. No need to try other viewers

5) Have you tried saving the modified image to another format, (eg. PNG, TIFF), as well as the original format?

Yes, BMP

5) If you answered YES to question (5): When the change occurs, does the alternate format image exhibit the same change as the original modified format?

Yes, the same change

6) Have you tried copying an image you have modified to a flash drive, (then remove it from the computer)?

Yes, just today

6) If you answered YES to question (6): Did you then plug it into another computer and ensure that the image had been modified?

Yes, just today (see point 1)



I am not able to answer to other questions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« on: March 19, 2014, 07:35 PM »

Another hypothesis is an instability of my Windows with regard to visualization of images. Perhaps a component/file of Windows, directly or indirectly devoted to visualization of images, is partially corrupted. 

I should try the command SFC.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« on: March 19, 2014, 07:22 PM »

^maybe his monitor is like a dying star...

-tomos (March 19, 2014, 05:18 PM)

The drawback concerns only some photos and only the area they cover.
Everything else on the monitor is fine and above all it's stable.
That's why I don't believe the culprit is the monitor.

have you tried any of the suggestions in this thread?

In the last 20 months I tried everything but another monitor. I already tried the suggestions I read here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« on: March 19, 2014, 06:58 PM »

have you done lots of virus scans?  Maybe you have some prankware floating about.

-MilesAhead (March 19, 2014, 05:03 PM)

I hunted for every kind of infection, and for each kind of infection I used more programs.
No result.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« on: March 19, 2014, 10:00 AM »

There is also another side of the matter: spontaneous changes of many photo within a short time.

A certain photo is reddish. By Photoshop I decrease the color red. The photo is fine.

End of the story, right? No.

If I look at the photo the next day, or after few hours, or sometimes after few minutes, the photo is reddish again. Photoshop again, another decreasing of the color red.
All that repeats itself for several times. I would say the correction must be repeated roughly for four-five times.
At last, after several corrections, the photo reaches its final stable state.

It's really exasperating.
I don't understand what happens in my PC. It seems possessed by the devil...

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General Software Discussion / Opera 12 and Facebook: a disaster now

« on: March 18, 2014, 08:56 AM »

Hi all.

I use the browser Opera 12.16 and my Internet works fine, as usual, but in the last weeks Facebook is a disaster. Sometimes it is almost frozen.
When I enter in a Facebook page, the browser shows the usual messages like "Request sent to... Receiving data from... Sending to..." but those messages don't appear once only, they appear again and again, many times, cyclically, almost endlessly.
Sometimes the page doesn't appear, the screen is blank, sometimes I see everything but images. The little "wheel" of the browser sometimes turns turns turns endlessly...
All the messages refer to servers of Facebook, therefore the culprit should not be a malware/spyware that tries to bring me elsewhere.

I have done every kind of control, even by Hijackthis and OTL, and my PC is clean.

Some days ago I emptied the cache of the browser (I never needed to do it) and the situation seemed solved, but within a few time the issue appeared again.

What's happened?




P.S.= I have tried other browsers and Facebook works fine. Therefore the matter really concerns Opera 12.16 and Facebook

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Living Room / Re: what does this say?

« on: March 16, 2014, 03:12 PM »

English people really need to learn to enunciate better

-4wd (March 15, 2014, 08:00 PM)

Is that a widespread matter or is that limited to few cases?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: March 13, 2014, 12:23 PM »

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: March 12, 2014, 03:41 PM »

The oldest photo of our childhood:

Spoiler

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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos

« on: March 02, 2014, 03:49 AM »

Will you succeed in not yawning while watching this video?

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Living Room / A real touching movie

« on: February 28, 2014, 07:28 AM »

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: February 25, 2014, 07:44 AM »

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Living Room / The first Lotus motorcycle

« on: February 22, 2014, 04:23 AM »

http://www.dailymail...le-based-design.html

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Living Room / Re: Hard Drive Brand Reliability Data

« on: February 21, 2014, 04:05 AM »

Yesterday my WDC WD5000AAKX-00ERMAO passed away, after only 4 months of service.

RIP

-Giampy (February 20, 2014, 06:58 AM)

My trusted technician has changed that hard disk for free. He has said that among 200 hard disks WDC WD5000AAKX-00ERMAO mine is the only one to get broken.
I care to say that as I don't want to put unjustly WD in a bad light.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Security Suites (2013/2014)

« on: February 21, 2014, 03:55 AM »

The best security suites is the one that controls even the Kernel.
I am referring to Windows XP. I was told that Windows XP will be unprotected against Kernel attacks after April, I mean after its end of support.
Is there any program that controls even the Kernel?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: February 20, 2014, 07:03 AM »

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Living Room / Re: Hard Drive Brand Reliability Data

« on: February 20, 2014, 06:58 AM »

I've used a handful of WD drives and around half of them had problems a lot earlier than I was accustomed to.
Maybe it's a regional thing? More likely, just dumb luck.

-nosh (January 30, 2014, 02:28 AM)

Yesterday my WDC WD5000AAKX-00ERMAO passed away, after only 4 months of service.

RIP

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: February 19, 2014, 08:42 AM »

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« on: February 14, 2014, 06:36 AM »

Giampy,
when you say you see it dark - do you mean in the forum - or do you mean on the desktop as wallpaper - or are you looking at it in some other softw.?

-tomos (February 14, 2014, 06:26 AM)

I see it dark everywhere: this forum, desktop, viewer of Windows XP, Jpegview, Microsoft Paint.

Of course there are little differences among those systems/software, but such differences are irrelevant.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« on: February 14, 2014, 06:17 AM »

The changed photo/wallpaper that drove me to start this thread:



I can't know how you see it. I see it rather dark and reddish.
It's impossible I fine-tuned that photo in such way!



Who is the hacker who changes my photos?      

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« on: February 13, 2014, 12:18 PM »

I remember you posting about this before - it is a weird one - you were even saying you could see the images change sometimes

-tomos (February 13, 2014, 12:06 PM)

Congratulations for your very good memory.

Yes, it's still the same unsolved matter since 2012...

What are you using to make the changes to the images

-tomos

Photoshop CS4.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« on: February 13, 2014, 12:10 PM »

Did you check the pictures in the exact same light, on the same time a year, and at the same time of the day, as at the first look? Are you certain that your eyes and the monitor screen is in the exact same angle now, as then? Have your sight changed? Were any of your indoor light bulbs changed? It really does matter! All of it.

-Curt (February 13, 2014, 10:44 AM)

I confess some changes in my sight during the day, but they are little changes.
Changes of those photos are far greater.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« on: February 13, 2014, 12:04 PM »

make copies and ename them and zip them and file them away somewhere.
Next time you find they look different, go check out your zipped archive and compare -- have the files changed or not?

-mouser (February 13, 2014, 10:17 AM)

Excellent trick, but I have already applied it. I am waiting for the next changes of my photos. If they will happen again, I will open that Zip to control the differences.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« on: February 13, 2014, 11:55 AM »

Where did you get the photos?  Is there a common denominator?
It would be interesting if they were all downloaded from the same place

-MilesAhead (February 13, 2014, 10:26 AM)

The drawback affects photos downloaded from different websites

Although one would think it should be difficult to just come into the PC and play with the images.  Even if the sneak knew your IP how would he know the image file location?  Unless it somehow "called home."

-MilesAhead

I don't know.
As far as I know Jpg files may include code, though no security progam has detected it in my photos. Such code could communicate with someone outside my PC. I don't know how much this hypothesis is credible.

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General Software Discussion / Photos that spontaneously change

« on: February 13, 2014, 10:06 AM »

Hi all. 
I am stressed because of a drawback that bothers me for many months.   

I download many photos from Internet, then I fine-tune them with regard to brightness, contrast, colors, etc...
They become almost perfect.

After some months I find out that several photos are spontaneously changed. They are darker and reddish. I must fine-tune them again.

I am just irritated.

Notes:
- PC and monitor are always the same
- such drawback happens with certain photos only. Anything else in my PC is perfect
- my PC is free from any malware
- those photos appear changed even if I start my PC by an external operating system (on an USB key)

I don't succeed in finding an explanation.
It seems that someone enters in my PC and changes those photos... Is this hypothesis so absurd?

Can you find an explanation to my drawback?