HT201412 there is a black box on my screen

There is a black box around all my apps/when I turn on the phone and my touch screen isn't working - I can't move off the initial screen and the only thing I can get to work is Siri - I have tried turning it off and on (which is difficult since the touch screen won't allow me to slide power off) but it still doesn't work.  I haven't been able to sync to itunes or icloud to reset either -
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Hi,
This sounds like a setting needs changing in the Finder's View menu. Choose View>Show View Options or hit Command-J. Uncheck Show Item Info in the resulting dialogue.
Alastair.

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