Keyboard hijacked??

[paul420]

As some of you know i have just
posted here for help and everything
was fine, Then i went to login to my email accounts
but when i pressed shift to get @.  these " 2
little marks appeared instead then it happend
for other keys not showing what was pressed??
i hope you understand what i mean the keys pressed
do not corrospond to what is on screen??
Is this virus behaviour???
Once agian thanks for your time.........

[CBMatt]

Is this problem still happening?  Have you tried a different keyboard?
This sort of thing can be caused by a virus, but it can be caused by a lot of other things as well.  It could also be no more than a fluke.
You should try another keyboard; if the problem persists, then we'll brainstorm and come up with other possible solutions.

[paul420]

Hi,CBMatt. i have just tried another keyboard
 off mums gateway pc and it was still happening
 dell help site had me checking that, regions was in
 english usa, and it was, other keys affected are the
 pound sign comes up as hash,hash comes up as
 forward slash ill run all my spy and virus programs
 and get back to you i wont list them all as ive got
 all the wons u recomend..cheers..P...

[paul420]

As you know it takes sometime to scan and
 i still havent finished in normal mode avg-anti virus
 and spy found nothing,xoftspy,spybot search destroy,
 spyware detector,spyware doctor.havnt found anything
 ill try in safe mode and get back dont know how long
 it will take please give me time i still have to scan with
 avast virus..

[paul420]

RESULT!!!! Hi,CBMatt i dont know what was
wrong but just to let you know before i spent
the night scaning in safe mode i tried system restore
 it went back to 24 aug,and everything is fine so far,
 i dont know if any KB updates were released that
 might of been bad but im just glad its working agian
 Once again thank for your time fella..
 cheers..P...

[CBMatt]

It's hard to say what the cause might've been, but it's entirely possible that a hotfix was causing problems.  I would more prone to suspect some third-party program, but System Restore would've uninstalled whatever it was.  In any case, I'm glad your issue is resolved, and I hope it stays that way.

[paul420]

Thanks so do i..

[CBMatt]

As this issue appears to be resolved, I am closing this topic.  If you are the original poster and you would like this topic to be re-opened for any reason, PM me or another moderator and it can be arranged.

If you are not the original poster and you require help, please start a New Topic with information about your computer and your problem.