keyboard - vowels are numbers

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by rwstarkey, Mar 29, 2007.

  1. rwstarkey

    rwstarkey Private E-2

    Hi,

    When typing vowels on my laptop keyboard, they type as numbers. I thin this is malware, but can find very little on what it might be. AVG reports all as clean. Only happens under one user. Can log on as another user and all is OK.

    Anyone have any experience with this?

    Thanks!

    --Randy Starkey
     
  2. rwstarkey

    rwstarkey Private E-2

    anyone had this happen? Am I the only one? I hope not confused
     
  3. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Majorgeeks!

    This is a new one! Let's see if we can find any malware! Run the below steps on the account that is having the problem. Also, can you check for yourself to see if any software loads and runs on the user account that has the problem but does not run on the other user accounts.

    Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, renaming, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.
    • Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support
    • Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.
    • Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.
    • After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:
    Make sure you also rename HijackThis.exe as suggested in the procedures. Use analyse.exe for the new name. This is very important due to some new infections going around.
    • When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too:
      • CounterSpy - only for Windows XP, 2K, & NT users
      • AVG Antispyware log - ONLY IF NEEDED you were not able to run CounterSpy. - only for Windows XP, 2K, & NT users
      • Bitdefender - from step 6
      • Panda Scan - from step 6
      • runkeys.txt - the log from GetRunKey.bat
      • newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat
      • HijackThis
    NOTE: You can only attach 3 files in a single message so it will require that you use two messages to attach all of these logs!
     

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