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Undetected Virus ?
« on: November 14, 2011, 08:10:39 AM »
Wondering if you someone could help. Been having probs with my other Hp computer, its running on Windows 7, started with finding the number 1 repeating right across my search bar after loading google (which is my home page) then to find all search bars doing the same , and in my password window on windows start up the asterisks run right across it continuously. I have been trying to find out if there is a recent virus which does this but to no avail. I have run avast (free home edition) at least twice it has found no virus so far. So far have tried going to an earlier restore point that hasnt solved the problem and have done boot scan. There were some Hewlett Packard File that was in the Health Check program saying it was corrupted would this have anything to do with it? I am not to knowing with computers and would appreciate any help.
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Re: Undetected Virus ?
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2011, 08:24:29 AM »
Run a quick scan with this....

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.51. http://filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/
always check for updates before you start scanning
click on the remove selected  button to quarantine anything found

post the scan log here






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Re: Undetected Virus ?
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2011, 01:39:03 PM »
Just a completely different possibility, at all.

Power down your computer. Turn your keyboard upside down, and press every single key one at a time, several times each key. Then "play" with the keyboard, pressing the keys in different combinations (as if you were playing a concert or alike).

Power up your system and test if the problems are gone.

In any case, please report back.

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Re: Undetected Virus ?
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2011, 02:13:20 PM »
Power down your computer. Turn your keyboard upside down, and press every single key one at a time, several times each key. Then "play" with the keyboard, pressing the keys in different combinations (as if you were playing a concert or alike).

Huh..???
Please enlighten me..!! Thanks.
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Re: Undetected Virus ?
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2011, 02:14:41 PM »
Power down your computer. Turn your keyboard upside down, and press every single key one at a time, several times each key. Then "play" with the keyboard, pressing the keys in different combinations (as if you were playing a concert or alike).

Huh..???
Please enlighten me..!! Thanks.
It could be a keyboard mechanical problem.
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Re: Undetected Virus ?
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2011, 02:18:27 PM »
It could be a keyboard mechanical problem.

Why do you thinks so, Bob..??
I haven't found any hint for this in the OP's post.
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Re: Undetected Virus ?
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2011, 02:28:14 PM »
It could be a keyboard mechanical problem.

Why do you thinks so, Bob..??
I haven't found any hint for this in the OP's post.
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Re: Undetected Virus ?
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2011, 07:13:43 PM »
@Asyn,

If you press a key "continuously", you get the same key repeated in almost any program or "field" you are working on.

The keyboard won't do this "by itself", and simple "dust" wouldn't do it either. But, just for example, some people tend to eat over their keyboards (and I have no indication that the OP is one of those). A piece of bread (for example) could have get into the keyboard and could be pressing some keys.

In (very) old keyboards, a simple piece of metal (commonly found in offices) could close the circuit and could give the same effect as if the user would be pressing a key.

Those are examples only, and I have no way to know if those examples are relevant in this particular case. I just though of a simple possibility, a different explanation, instead of thinking that a terrible malware is somehow controlling the system. By cleaning the keyboard upside down and pressing all the keys, some "chunk" of dirt may fall out and the problem could be solved.

This was / is simple speculation, and I just suggested it as a potential alternative solution to a potential different problem that could be showing the same final behaviour to the user. Only the feedback of the OP can tell us if this somehow solve the problem or not.

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Re: Undetected Virus ?
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2011, 07:42:10 PM »
1. This was / is simple speculation, and I just suggested it as a potential alternative solution to a potential different problem that could be showing the same final behaviour to the user.
2. Only the feedback of the OP can tell us if this somehow solve the problem or not.

1. Finally an adequate reply. Thanks.
2. True.

I may add that most modern BIOSs would report this problem. ;)
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Re: Undetected Virus ?
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2011, 07:51:11 PM »
I may add that most modern BIOSs would report this problem. ;)

Only in the case when some key is pressed continuously when the POST runs.

This may not be the case. I have seen cases where some key is pressed by the user, and suddenly the next key (near the one just pressed by the user) "stucks", hence seeing a similar behaviour described by the user.

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Re: Undetected Virus ?
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2011, 07:59:34 PM »
I may add that most modern BIOSs would report this problem. ;)

Only in the case when some key is pressed continuously when the POST runs.

Well, isn't it what you guys suggested..?
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