That's today's Question Everything...
Fascinating! But what the hell is it?
I was trying to install PC-BSD 9.0 from a DVD made from a .iso image, and it suddenly began frantically scrolling down lines of code from the top toward the bottom of the screen, so fast it was all a blur. The camera froze that action here, creating an impression it wasn't moving very fast, but really it was going like a bat outa one of those very hot places. Then after several minutes of that,
it suddenly switched to a rapidly alternating view of two screens - this second one shown above, and a plain but sickly white one.
I'd scanned that iso file with two different antivirus programs, and both reported it to be clean, but this whole thing was acting a lot like one of those types of malware called a 'compression bomb'. When I checked in disk management, that whole partition of the hard drive was totally full of something. No spare room on that half of this drive at all. Luckily, the Win-7 on the other half of the drive remained untouched by all this. So I used EaseUS Partition Master to do
a fresh format of that partition, and clean that mess off it.
I think there may be something wrong with that freebie operating system if it won't even unpack and install without making a mess like this. Now I know why it's 'free' - we earn every damned penny of the price of an operating system just while trying to get it to install without doing any permanent damage.
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