{"id":2875,"date":"2007-07-14T21:36:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T20:36:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-19T21:05:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T20:05:43","slug":"2875-bug-inside-lcd-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenstechtips.com\/index.php\/2875-bug-inside-lcd-screen","title":{"rendered":"Bug inside LCD Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--no-adsense--><\/p>\n<p>Argh, help! I&#8217;ve got a living bug crawling around inside my LCD computer monitor! It&#8217;s actually walking around which is quite annoying. I&#8217;ve no idea how it got in there but it&#8217;s small enough to have fit through the small holes at the back of the monitor.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, there only seems to be one so they won&#8217;t be making babies in there any time soon. Has anyone ever had bugs inside their monitors and how did they get rid of them? The advice I&#8217;ve had so far is to wait for them to die and hope that they die off screen or somewhere where it won&#8217;t affect the picture too much.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update (July 2010): Incredibly, this article has had 10,000 hits since it&#8217;s been published (most of them being in July each year which seems to be peak season). Please read the comments below for tips and discussion. In my case, I found that the bug disappeared after a few days providing that you don&#8217;t squish it or anything. You don&#8217;t need to do anything elaborate like taking your screen apart (and would not be advised to). Please do drop a comment below and let us know what&#8217;s working for you.\u00a0 &#8211; Ken<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argh, help! I&#8217;ve got a living bug crawling around inside my LCD computer monitor! It&#8217;s actually walking around which is quite annoying. 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